Credibility Bookcases

Following-up, "Cate Blanchett's Books."

At NYT:

I wrote about the "credibility bookcase," the video background for pundits, politicians and anyone else looking to add a patina of authority to their amateurish quarantine broadcast. https://t.co/oyV13IUvEX

— Amanda Hess (@amandahess) May 1, 2020

And "Credibility Bookcase" focuses mostly on British personalities, but there's some perceptively droll humor:

Michael Palin. By now credibility is so deep in Michael's bones that he could appear naked with a teacup on his head and people would listen quietly and nod their heads. In cases like this there is a reversal, like a tennis ball flipped inside out. The bookcases gain in stature. pic.twitter.com/BVRhxCI4eD

— Bookcase Credibility (@BCredibility) May 3, 2020

Laurence Boone. There is beauty in the gentle arc of the books but the bookcase clings to the wall like an alien stowaway on the return journey of an interplanetary mission. It squats there as if at her command. Knowledge is an unknown weapon, credibility is given through fear. pic.twitter.com/drK4wO8AD2

— Bookcase Credibility (@BCredibility) May 3, 2020