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Syndicated political columnist Kathleen Parker does not consider herself a pundit, she told attendees yesterday at a brown-bag lunch discussion entitled “The Problem With Punditry...
...like to think of myself as a columnist,” said Parker, at the Harvard Kennedy School event. “A columnist is first and foremost a journalist...
Citing her own experiences as a television analyst and columnist, Parker expressed reservations with what she called a “culture of punditry,” in which the purported experts being interviewed are forced to take one side or another “because there has to be a fight...
...order to offer an opinion on television, “it really isn’t so necessary to know anything” about a particular subject, Parker said, citing several times when she was asked to appear on a show to discuss something she had no knowledge of. In many cases, Parker said, “empty punditry” and entertainment value tend to take the place of insightful opinion...
...columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group whose bi-weekly columns appear in newspapers and magazines around the country, Parker added that she did not see the punditry problem going away anytime soon, simply because appearing on television tends to be such an attractive opportunity...