More media brainwashing

Found this entry at Ace of Spades blog - Dec 8:

Ace reminds us that the media brainwashes helps you differentiate between views on climate change. If you agree with the libs, you're an "expert" ... if not, you're a "skeptic" ... or a "denier" etc, Isn't that funny? There are no "experts" who disagree with their views. He's talking about the newspaper headline below.

Headline: the eternal struggle between skeptics and people you should listen to, experts.

In Face of Skeptics, Experts Affirm Climate Peril

This is one of the oldest, cheapest media tricks there is, and one such that, if they were truly unbiased, they would simply change their stylebook to forbid evermore.

We've seen this trick a million times. Sketching the battle-lines in a debate, the liberal media will call the advocates from, say, the Brookings Institute experts or note their subject-matter of expertise -- economic forecasters, for example -- and their critics at Heritage conservatives.

Get that? You can either go with this presumably-apolitical unbiased expertise in the field being discussed, or you can go with this conservative.

All the time. All. The. Time.

Nevermind that the Brookings Institute guy's credentials might only be a JD and ten years of political advocacy. He's an "expert" by simple dint of his political persuasion. And nevermind the critic from AEI or Heritage might be a Ph.D. in economics (or whatever subject matter is under discussion), he's the "conservative" politico with an axe to grind but no understanding of the subject at all.