Question to the Media: How can you claim someone to be an expert in a matter that they neither have participated in, or worse - hates?
if I wanted to talk to an expert about planes, I wouldn't talk to someone who's scared of flying and has never flown a plane in their lives... I'd talk to a pilot - with thousands of hours experience in all kinds of conditions and different planes.
If I wanted to talk to an expert about formula one cars, I wouldn't talk to a Greenie who is completely anti-oil and has never opened a bonnet in their lives and only ever rides pushbikes. I'd talk to someone who has driven the cars in question, worked in a pit stop and has breathed petrol fumes most of their lives.
What the media has done is effectively called an Amish person in as an expert on the next iPhone model that's about to be released and asked them to comment about it.
If I wanted to talk to an expert about firearms - I'd get someone who has lived and breathed them in. A firearms instructor. Someone from the military that does training in all kids of firearms. Yet the media goes to people who have
never fired a shot in their lives and calls them an expert on firearms.
Is it too much to expect the media to get people on who really know what they're talking about? Sadly, the answer is 'yes'. Because once again - truth is like kryptonite for the media.