Today In Thompson is our semi-regular report on Syracuse University pop culture professor and professional quotation Robert Thompson — and the press' endless appetite to engage him in soundbite. Multiple times a day, you can find Thompson expounding on this celebrity or that TV show, ad infinitum. More to the point, it shows how lazy we can be in showing how lazy journalists can be when it comes to getting "insight" from "experts."

It's a slow news Monday (well, for some fields) which means we're digging into the weekend for this edition of Today In Thompson. Watch as everyone's favorite professor of pop culture (read that again, because it's his real title) expounds on professional wrestling, the iPhone, and G-rated movies.

• "Most journalists, from the get-go, are embarrassed by this. They went into the field usually with noble aspirations, they went to journalism school, they read Edward R. Murrow and then they find themselves on the Paris bandwagon." — Breaking news that serious news reporters might actually be ashamed and annoyed that they have to report on Paris Hilton; CP

• "The Simpsons pulled off an exquisite sleight-of-hand worthy of its postmodernist attitude. By targeting the ironies and contradictions of the entertainment-industrial complex, it became itself a textbook example of modern cultural marketing and synergy." — Adding nothing new to the debate on why The Simpsons is such a phenomenon; Tikkun

• "When WWE depends on this certain kind of wild and woolly universe and then something happens in real life like this," the incident throws a cloud over the show. "When blatant reality kicks in, it's difficult to absorb" what's real and what's scripted. — On what everyone already knows about professional "wrestling"; Baltimore Sun

• "We only saw people using these phone things in movies and TV. … As a result, they were perceived as super-cool status symbols - something important people used." — Telling you why, exactly, you're so obsessed with the iPhone, Cleveland Plain-Dealer

• "The immediate response is to go, 'Oh, you know, we're just becoming a vulgar society. We don't care about things the whole family can watch.' … That certainly isn't truth. An awful lot of the big box office things are movies that, in fact, are designed for the entire family to go see. … To some extent, I think the G rating is almost the equivalent of suggesting that this (movie) is going to be a 'Mister Rogers' or Barney singing, 'I love you, you love me,' kind of thing. … That G rating might kind of indicate to you that this might be something that's for the kiddies." — Dispelling the myth that there are so few G-rated movies because we want our cinemas packed with violence, sex, and Scarlett Johansson; Reno Gazette-Journal