Word: experts
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Berkowitz's ad hoc committee included LeonKass, an ethics and biology expert from theUniversity of Chicago; University of Pennsylvaniapolitical scientist Ellen Kennedy; and IsaacKramnick from Cornell University's politicalscience department. The Harvard members of thecommittee were Starch Professor of PsychologyJerome Kagan and Professor of German Maria M.Tatar...
...Just putting together the script raised enough delicate questions to fill the Red Sea. How to portray the Egyptians as cruel slave masters without antagonizing the Arab world? "We were very careful with skin tones to show that the slave population was multicultural, multiethnic," says Tzivia Schwartz-Getzug, an expert in interfaith relations who was hired as liaison to the religious community. "And in the Exodus scene, you actually see some Egyptians going with the Hebrews...
This international group oversees other expert organizations that certify well-managed forests and their wood products. FSC-approved inspectors (in the U.S. they would be from the Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood group or Scientific Certification Systems) check to see whether a landowner harvests wood in a way that does not harm animal habitats, streams, indigenous peoples or the local economy. Moreover, logging must be limited to a pace that allows a forest to replenish itself over the years--a practice called sustainable forestry. Since being formed in 1993, the Mexico-based FSC has certified 25 million acres of forest worldwide...
...point of this anecdote is that today, no business-news amateur, as I was, could ever nail such a job at a first-rate publication. Once a backwater, business reporting, writing and editing have become smart, sophisticated and the high-walled province of the expert, although it took the better part of 100 years to reach that status...
...business journalism is broadcast television. TV with a business story is like a whore with a baby: it's a cute little thing, but what the hell to do with it? A business story's got no blood, no guts, no prime time. So business is left largely to expert talking heads. On cable, market-oriented business networks are surging like hot IPOs, but sometimes they give us information overload. The moment-to-moment changes in the major stock averages flash nervously on Bloomberg News; the stock tickers scroll rapidly on CNBC and CNNfn, citing the latest prices of individual...