Expert shopping

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Experts shopping ( Engl. , Literally. "Expert shopping") refers to the selection of experts, in which the primary search criterion not the best possible expertise is, but to confirm its willingness to preconceived notions of the searcher. This practice is practiced in the news media, politics, and legal proceedings.

The term comes from media criticism and is used to judge violations of journalistic standards.

Examples

Examples of expert shopping include the behavior of the US television station CBS , which had experts investigate the authenticity of a memo on the career of the future US President George W. Bush in the National Guard until it received positive feedback. The memo was later exposed by bloggers as a simple forgery from Microsoft Word, and CBS anchorman Dan Rather's career was damaged.

CBS later apologized for using the memos:

"Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret. "
"Based on what we know today, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard that warrants using them in the report. We shouldn't have used them. That was a mistake that we deeply regret. "

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kevin Drum: Killian Memo Update . In: Washington Monthly . September 10, 2004. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  2. ^ Dan Rather Statement On Memos . In: CBS News , September 20, 2005. Retrieved January 17, 2017.