TV News Sucks: Reason #4827

One of the things I said here was that the news can be a crappy place to actually learn something educational about a topic from the relevant experts. Here's one example I had in mind - a graph of guests on TV news shows from one month:



So often on those shows, they are talking about economic topics. And they always have political people offer their side's spin on the issue. But that doesn't help us become better informed/educated on the topic. We just become experts on political BS. I also saw this today:

In Four Years, Sunday Shows Have Not Quoted A Single Scientist On Climate Change. Of those who were asked about climate change on the Sunday shows, 54 percent were media figures, 31 percent were politicians and not one was a scientist or climate expert.