Editors Need Subject Expertise

Opinion editors should ensure interviewers or guests have demonstrable domain competence when discussing technical topics (taxes, economics, public policy) and should fact‑check or contextualize specialist claims before publication. Failing to do so lets misleading, cherry‑picked statistics circulate under institutional authority, eroding trust and polarizing debate. — If newsrooms adopt this norm, it would raise the baseline quality of public argument, reduce misinformation, and force clearer boundaries between cultural commentary and technical policy reporting.