Watch out, Robert Thompson: Looks like your monopoly on pop culture soundbites might be facing some competition.

Every lazy reporter's dream, Thompson regularly supplies quotables on everything from American Idol to High School Musical from his office suite at Syracuse University. Thompson is usually referred to as a "pop culture expert." Around Jossip HQ, he's referred to as "Syracuse University's best branding mechanism."

Imagine our surprise, then, when ABCNews.com's Emily Friedman found multiple pop culture experts at universities who are not Robert Thompson for an article about legal liability at reality TV shows.

There's Liam O'Neil, "pop culture expert and professor at the school of communications at Quinnipiac University, in Connecticut," who says things like, "I think [reality television] is taking more extreme actions."

And there's also Elayne Rapping, "a professor of American studies at Buffalo University who specializes in popular culture," who adds, "I think that the direction that [reality television] is going is increasingly morally questionable and is also sort of the bottom of the barrel of American culture."

But perhaps the most notable aspect of the entire article: Not a single Thompson mention. So much for the Newhouse III building making SU's j-school any stronger.