@FOBowman3 I share your view/critique of Seth Abramson's work., I learned the hard way while being paid handsomely by ABC news to comment on high profile Ca cases in the 90's and then doing gavel to gavel coverage for them and local tv during OJ's criminal trial that once the

2]media anoints you as an "expert" who is good on TV that they want to use you on any current social issue that is loosely connected with your true expertise. I stopped granting interviews[a significant financial sacrifice for a legal academic and criminal atty who rarely worked

3]affluent clients] after doing a GMA interview debating my former professor, Alan Dershowitz, about whether Clinton should be impeached for lying to a grand jury about a blow job. While I viewed this process as absurd, why should the public pay any attention to my perspective on

4] an issue outside my narrow lane of expertise? TV is an entertainment medium, including its news coverage, that never strays too far beyond the conventional wisdom of its audience.