Shopping around for informed opinions is normal and should be expected. That said, I’ve been a legal commentator and the pressure to be aggressively sound-bitey

Shopping around for informed opinions is normal and should be expected. That said, I’ve been a legal commentator and the pressure to be aggressively sound-bitey is real. However, it’s often self-imposed by the expert and not always the reporter’s doing. I remember chatting with a Reuters reporter about the Uber/Lewandowski case and it was pretty clear that if I didn’t say something sexier, the article wouldn’t run. Yes, she was presumably under some pressure to find some sizzle, but I was also asking myself how badly I wanted to be quoted.