punditocracyn.
/ˌpʌndᵻˈtɒkrəsi/, U.S. /ˌpəndəˈtɑkrəsi/ Chiefly U.S. Politics.
Elite members of the news media, typically seen as having political power in their own right. Cf. commentariat n.
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1987 M. Kinsley in Wall St. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 33/1 This analysis comes from..the Washington punditocracy, including leading conservative sages whose concern for the health of the Democratic Party is, let us say, problematic.
1993 New York 21 June 16/2 The punditocracy can be an arrogant, blinkered lot, given to singing from the same conventional sheet music.
2003 National Post (Canada) 20 May a16/1 The anti-Anaheim drumbeat has since been taken up by hockey's print punditocracy.
Derivatives
punditoˈcratic adj.
ΚΠ
1992 New Republic 23 Nov. 44/1 The punditocratic blurring of statecraft and newscraft is exactly what Alterman most passionately despises.
2001 Publishers Weekly 12 Mar. 70/1 Together these ideas and their progeny are called pragmatism..and that has been generating a lot of academic and punditocratic interest again recently.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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