Word: punditizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being invented, George Orwell, in his book 1984, was making one of the worst predictions in a century filled with them: that technology would be a centralizing, totalitarian influence. Instead, technology became a force for democracy and individual empowerment. The Internet allows anyone to be a publisher or pundit, E-mail subverts rigid hierarchies, and the tumult of digital innovation rewards wildcats who risk battle with monolithic phone companies. The symbol of the atomic age, which tended to centralize power, was a nucleus with electrons held in tight orbit; the symbol of the digital age is the Web, with countless...
...that's what I'm going to do." It was the most dramatic moment of the Warriors' inept season and landed Latrell not only a canceled contract, a shredded endorsement deal with Converse and a yearlong ban from the NBA, but also the finger wagging of every sports pundit in the country...
...released an impassioned mission statement, turning to capital letters to make their points hit home (e.g. "GRAPES ARE TASTY"). A typically fervent debate took over the U.C. e-mail list, and unknown pranksters circulated a bogus poster threatening to toss HDS dietitian Shirley Hung into a crossfire with political pundit and baseball analyst George Will...
...camera interviews, Galbraith offers commentary about his experiences as an economist, moral philosopher and political pundit...
...fact, a little industry emerged around the First Frosh. Senior Jesse Oxfeld, a former Daily editor, has worked feverishly to market himself as the official Chelsea pundit, appearing on the Today show, CBS, MSNBC and NPR. Husky, chest hair peeking up from his button-down shirt and punctuating sentences with one raised eyebrow, Oxfeld looks the part. "Ultimately, I want to be a pundit. But I didn't know where to find an entry-level job." Making the most of his opportunity, he has got his lines all worked out. "If I really wanted to be cynical about...