Comments

1. WBrink says:
   February 6, 2009 at 11:51 pm

   Does anybody else hate that there is no thought given to authority and voice these days? Every time I turn on CNN, they’re offering up quotes from Twitter as if it was news. I know technology immersion and integration is all fun, but I’m certain that the vast majority of people out there are not worth listening to and don’t have the authority to speak on most matters.

   • Plates says:
     February 6, 2009 at 11:58 pm

     @WBrink: There is your problem right there, you are turning to CNN for news. They haven’t done news since the late 1990s.
2. Chris Walters says:
   February 6, 2009 at 11:56 pm

   You’re right, I should have contacted the Matlock Institute for a comment before posting.

   • WBrink says:
     February 7, 2009 at 1:10 am

     @Chris Walters: The comment was not about the post, but about Twitter and viewer/reader participation in general. Like, in surveys on the stimulus package (or Republican senators), it should read “54% of people completely uneducated on economics or policy state that they are not for this program- nor do they understand it. 100% of those polled could not pronounce ‘Keynesian.’”

     • Chris Walters says:
       February 7, 2009 at 1:14 am

       @WBrink: Ha ha, yes, and I have to admit I laughed *and* rolled my eyes a lot the first time I saw Rick Sanchez read his own Twitter stream on the air. “CNN! Somehow relevant! Please!”
   • WBrink says:
     February 7, 2009 at 1:12 am

     @Chris Walters: PS – The joke itself was fantastic. =)
3. bohemian says:
   February 6, 2009 at 11:57 pm

   My mom would watch a Matlock special…
   Maybe he is onto something.
4. Plates says:
   February 7, 2009 at 12:00 am

   This would only work as a Matlock-Diagnosis Murder-Murder She Wrote crossover.

   • seen2much says:
     February 7, 2009 at 12:12 am

     @Plates: They’d also need to raise Lawrence Welk from the dead.
5. WorldHarmony says:
   February 7, 2009 at 12:32 am

   Expertise is so yesterday. Welcome to the postmodern era!
6. SunnyLea says:
   February 7, 2009 at 12:58 am

   I only accept jokes from authoritative sources.
7. 6a says:
   February 7, 2009 at 3:05 pm

   Thankfully a helpful video has been produced to aid the Matlock generation with the transition.