Subject: Experts? From: "Curt A. Monash" <0006058685@mcimail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 10:21 EST

The points about quotable experts have a lot of validity.  I've been quoted
a zillion times myself (just plug me into a search engine).  Reporters are
looking for people who fill a slot in a story.  That works equally well in
stories of high, medium and low integrity.

It's part of the "standard formula" of journalism I hope to see overthrown
in the cybernetic age.

Curt Monash
Chief journalistic officer
Monash Information Services
cmonash@mcimail.com

I have plagiarized the following for some of my sigs, pending somebody
pointing out a fair use/copyright problem:  

There are three kinds of people in this world:  Those who can count and
those who can't.


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