Every big media "story nexus" generates a large population of apparently completely self-assured experts in whatever it happens to be. Everyone suddenly appears

Every big media "story nexus" generates a large population of apparently completely self-assured experts in whatever it happens to be. Everyone suddenly appears, due to self-selection of those who want to be visible, to have very strong opinions on virology/public health, climate science, energy generation, geopolitics, electoral politics, constitutional politics (not only the US document, to be clear), military strategy, whatever that month's "big story" happens to be. If you don't have an opinion on the story du jour, you don't get airtime, clicks, ad impressions, a buff to a CV, whatever. If you want the airtime, then, you must have an opinion, and it must be novel or contrarian enough to be noticeable. This is nothing new, but it used to be mostly confined to boors at dinner parties, and perhaps the letters page. There were only a few opinion columnists. Now anyone can monetise an opinion. AI is just another tedious episode, but the show will never end.