As An Authority on This Subject...

Television news sometimes makes the news outright or, at least, focuses it in a certain direction. A Boston trolley train passed over a small trash fire recently after a twenty year MBTA Inspector approved the move. There was absolutely no danger he said.

A nutty (my picture was on TV!) passerby filmed it and sent it to the local TV station. They then show the video and raged for two days about the danger of doing such a thing.

Finally, one of their brighter reporters thought to ask an MBTA official about it and the official mentions that the train was stopped until the inspector determined there was no danger. So instead of waiting a long time for the Fire Dept. to respond to a small trash fire, the train went forward.

I’m convinced that cell phone cameras will be the cause of the next holocaust. That and the fact that the Internet has left all these nitwits thinking they are as much an authority as anyone who actually knows what he or she is talking about. Today, everyone one is an authority for better or worse. 

Look at Autism and children’s vaccinations.