Word: punditizing
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From the beginning of yugoslavia's violent dissolution a decade ago, the feared endpoint was war in Macedonia. Every knowing pundit said the conflict that first grabbed the international community's attention in Slovenia in June 1991 would roll inexorably eastward. In time, they said, it would run up against the uneasy ethnic mix in Macedonia, the Yugoslav republic cursed with a contested name and surrounded by historically ill-willed neighbors. Match Macedonia with "powder keg" on an Internet search engine and you'll get 1,340 matches; "tinderbox" yields 332. Plenty of less shopworn slogans were brought to bear...
...word pundit brings to mind an image of a pipe-smoking, tweed-jacketed know-it-all who is fond of quoting Dean Acheson, then you will be delighted--and relieved--by the freshness of the reporters and opinion makers you will meet on Take 5, a new talk show on CNN that will include a rotating cast of four TIME journalists. "We wanted a show that had the vitality and perspective of newer reporters," says Lucy Spiegel, the show's executive producer. "A lot of people came to our attention who were not covering their sixth or seventh presidential election...
...whom treated politics as war and were ready to "go to the mattresses" at the drop of a subpoena. Adieu, gentlemen! And adieu, as well, to Vernon Jordan, the dapper consigliere; Albright and Reno, female bodyguards for the Little Rock Don; and George Stephanopoulos, lackey-turned-traitor-turned-pundit, who played Fredo to Clinton's Michael Corleone, and broke his brother's heart...
...thousands of people who have yet to vote for or against this person, I will not name. "This is going to be a very tense time," said a CNN reporter at the Mr./Ms. Senate Candidate HQ. The report was followed by a certain high-profile partisan pundit, married to another certain high-profile partisan pundit, giving a litany of excuses why Mr./Ms. Contender might have done better. Although - oh, by the way - "It's not over...
...another lesson in the vanishing line between the genuine and the artificial, the amateur and the pundit. And that was underscored in the news networks' post-debate "town meetings" and "focus groups," where the undecideds proved they could out-commentate the commentators. With disturbing professionalism, they dissected the candidates' performances and body language like bloodless insiders. "[Gore] seemed more genuine in his answers," said one - not "was," but "seemed...