Yes. And in particular, when you bring on analysts, have them analyze facts, not speculate about things that might be facts. https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1110942260592607237 …
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Or how about actually having experts talk about policy, rather than pretending that pundits are experts.
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Experts know facts. That would be the key difference. Network interviewers don’t know the facts so they can’t challenge clown shows. We’ve seen
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I'm generally in favor of more rigor, but of course TV interviewers can never be experts on everything & are thus easily snowed by, say, former CIA directors who claim to be able to project what evidence a non-public investigation has discovered. Hypothetically.
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Or like the run-up to the Iraq war. Hypothetically. I don’t mean *government* experts—I mean independent experts from civil society. Guv gets its say and then should be interrogated.
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What "expert" would you have turned to on Iraq? Virtually every critic of the war in 2002-03 either 1) had been loudly & demonstrably wrong on every foreign policy issue for the prior 20-30 years and/or 2) had zero experience & no access to classified intel.
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If the standard is “access to classified information” then **no** foreign policy/national security decision—left/right, D/R—can be rebutted by anybody in civil society—an academic with decades of research or the drunk at the corner bar.
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My own view of the war was not WMD-driven, so I tend to agree with this. The decision to focus on WMD was about Blair & Senate Dems, and was a bad strategy.
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