> through having experts to maintain a semblance of merit
Also, you have gradient from "actual honest expert advise" to "pushing own interest while claiming to be an expert".
Also, you have gradient from "actual honest expert advise" to "pushing own interest while claiming to be an expert".
Not because there aren't many honest people driven by what's best for their craft or profession, there are, but these are not the kinds of people who find being a political party's talking head on a morning show, or even reviewing their political program and schmoozing with the apparatchiks, gratifying.