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From Al Giordano, venting about the elevation of panic and crisis into daily routine in the modern media environment:
You’re expected to write or talk or shout about every crisis of the week, so you — I’m talking to you, fellow and sister media workers! — run to Wikipedia and the rest of the online library to pull up some factoids and buzzwords that fool the crowd into thinking the reporter or communicator really knows what he and she are writing or talking about.
I would say this description is, more often than it should be, a little too close to the truth for comfort. (Via Andrew Sullivan.)
