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."

• "So you get a lot of bang for those bucks, assuming it's something that everyone wants to see." — Discussing CNN's decision to give Paris Hilton air time, Forbes

More "Today in Thompson," after the jump.

• "There have always been celebrities who get in trouble, and we've always been kind of obsessed with them as well." — Discussing the saga of Paris Hilton's jail sentence, The Gainsville Sun

• "Sometimes the narration is just a cheesy, lazy shortcut used to try to make a show look like something it's not." — On the practice of TV shows using narrations to bring viewers up to speed, Houston Chronicle