Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...becoming too querulous about official pronouncements. That habit began with the deceits of Lyndon Johnson about Vietnam and Richard Nixon about Cambodia and Watergate--and for good reason. But he is right that the effort to be tough often degenerates into being merely snarling and snide, with an elitist irony substituting for honest skepticism. Reporters earn their investigative stripes by chasing scandals and catching politicians in flip-flops, which divert attention from truly important policy issues that must be resolved. "The result is an arms race of 'attitude,' in which reporters don't explicitly argue or analyze what they dislike...
...while prep school ties and blood lines may lead to membership for some club members, few of the clubs are truly elitist any more. Exclusivity is not the same thing as elitism unless there is some accepted standard of superiority that constitutes membership. When a group of hockey players lock themselves in a room drinking themselves into a coma becomes your idea of haute couture, then you've truly spent too much time watching "Ricki Lake...
...sounds incredibly elitist, but it's true," he added...
Also present is the lofty misanthropy of an elitist who can write off entire countries with the toss of an aphorism. "The whole of Greece," he writes, "seemed to me a cut-price theme park of broken marble, a place where you were harangued in a high-minded way about Ancient Greek culture while some swarthy little person picked your pocket." Then there is Albania, with its blighted trees, hectoring beggars and vandalized shacks of houses. This Third World country in Europe's midst, Theroux notes, "was brutalized, as though a nasty-minded army had swept through, kicking...
...real elitist view for a guy like this to stand up and say, "I don't think 4.5 million people should watch this. These people have as much right to watch their show as he has to watch 'Nightline...