We need a critical mass for credibility: the more the better," says Weinstein.
The government could help build competition by awarding the other firms substantial audit work, providing those firms with scale, critical mass and credibility.
This wedge of Apple's gave them mass-market credibility, boosted sales enormously, and established iTunes as a market force that would disrupt an entire industry.
While the sheer scope of these reports lends them some credibility, mass hysterias are also deeply American.
Unlike in India, Pakistan's founding fathers hadn't earned credibility or mass appeal, making it easy for the military to grab power.
Negativland, based in the Bay Area, has devoted itself to what it calls culture jamming: lifting and mixing bits of pop culture, especially advertising, to call into question the credibility of mass media or simply for the fun of it.
You can't approve of fashion frolicking with mass culture or give credibility to second-rate celebrities ("Tell me what your first memory of Tommy Hilfiger was," an interviewer was overheard saying to a glossy-lipped woman) and then be shocked when you feel shortchanged.
As such, he becomes the latest in a growing line of hip-hop heavyweights – Fetty Wap, Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah, gangsta rapper the Game, Fabolous, rapper-producer iLoveMakonnen and A$AP Ferg among them – to parlay their street credibility and mass appeal into a share of the emoji business.
By the same token, the crackdown on the Brotherhood as well as the military-guided government's vow to no longer tolerate the mass protests hardly lends credibility to assertions that the Brotherhood should drop its demand that Morsi be reinstated and take its rightful place in the political process.
"It's already lost a lot of its credibility with the American public over weapons of mass destruction, and this is not going to help its credibility.
Most Americans, I suspect, still don't realize how badly this apparent exploitation of the world's good will -- and the subsequent failure to find weapons of mass destruction -- damaged our credibility.
