In paragraph 12, why does Liaugminas put "experts" and "news analysts" in quotation

marks?

Liaugminas puts "experts" and "news analysts" in quotation marks because she doesn't believe that they are experts and news analysts.

Explanation:

She is ironic in this excerpt where she says:

"Do you hear from the same set of "experts" again and again? I find this especially annoying; The newsmagazine I worked for is still using some of the same old liberal "news analysts" they used when I first arrived in the Midwest bureau more than two decades ago."

She says about how news selects subjects and how they cover them; they are not objective, and they have lost their core values.