Word: punditizing
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...audience for them ? iStockphoto This photo store taps an army of amateurs, who can sell their shots for as little as $1 ? flickr The photo-scrapbook site helped popularize tagging as a way to organize information ? Blogger The popular bloggingsoftware service makes every would-be pundit a publisher ? Bloglines Lets users subscribe to various sites then receive updates from each one on a single page ? Technorati Its search and ranking functions reveal the topics that are burning up the blogosphere ? del.icio.us Allows users to share their Web-browser bookmarks, all organized by tags users...
...After the most recent Democratic debate late last month, Obama was gently scolded by the pundit class for having denied them the fireworks promised between the Illinois Senator and Hillary Clinton. Chris Cillizza chided, "He is not someone who enjoys direct confrontation and is still learning the political necessity of the tactic," while Real Clear Politics accused Obama of "backing off." Perhaps, some theorized, he was somehow suffering from his ability to "transcend politics." He was a rock star without an anthem, all charisma but no courage...
...Monday by conservatives on college campuses across the country, was met with resistance by Harvard students. While Islamic students took reactive measures, Harvard’s right-wing groups showed little interest in supporting the controversial campaign. Islamo-Fascism awareness events—sponsored and organized by conservative pundit David Horowitz’s Freedom Center—were held at over 200 colleges, including Brown, Dartmouth, and Columbia. But the controversial week did not receive promotion from any group at Harvard. Harvard Republican Club President Jeffrey Kwong ’09 said Horowitz’s center had solicited...
...Naipaul is no kinder about other writers such as the English novelists Graham Greene and Anthony Powell, the Trinidadian novelist Sam Selvon, or the Bengali pundit and essayist Nirad Chaudhuri, all of whom were his contemporaries. Greene's The Quiet American is dismissed because it presumed a knowledge of Indo-Chinese politics and Naipaul imperiously claims to not be in the habit of reading the newspapers. Anthony Powell was a good friend - in fact, during the 1950s he helped the young and ambitious Naipaul secure work as a book reviewer for the British magazine the New Statesman, and displayed...
...Ahmadinejad did not himself bring much constructive debate to Columbia—and David Horowitz might not either. But the anti-establishment pundit brings a more credible voice against the misguided values held by much of the university crowd...