Pundits

Ban the Pundits

Marvin Kitman | Posted 05.29.2008 | Media


Marvin Kitman

If there is such a thing as poetic license, why shouldn't pundits be licensed? You need a license before you can drive a car legally. The information highway is equally fraught with dangers.

Pundits React To North Carolina, Indiana Primaries

Huffington Post | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics


With Senator Obama's double-digit victory in the North Carolina primary, and Senator Clinton eking out a very narrow win in the Indiana primary, the p...

Of Sharks in the Water, Superdelegates, and Hannah Montana's Breasts

Andrew Foster Altschul | Posted 08.15.2008 | Media


Andrew Foster Altschul

What the news media is selling is dangerous: Wright, Obama and Clinton, Iraq and health insurance and Hannah Montana all get stirred into the same idiotic, phony pot.

The Chickens Have Come Home To Roost: Primary Coverage Drinking Games

Reny Monk | Posted 04.30.2008 | Home


Reny Monk

"Clinton's Last Stand" "Obama Can't Close the Deal" "Bitter and Angry" Argh. It's a bad TV drinking game. For me, the hackneyed vocabulary of these politicos drains all meaning from the process!

The Pundit Class Gets More Diverse

New York Times | Felicia R. Lee | Posted 04.10.2008 | Media


The historic and long-running presidential campaigns of Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have injected issues of race and gende...

LAT: TV Pundits Went Overboard With Gushing Coverage Of Iowa Upset

Los Angeles Times | Mary McNamara | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


If there was kinetic joy in the camps of Iowa caucus victors Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee last night, it was nothing compared to the hyperbole-burbl...