I have a new column up at Columbia Journalism Review on the failure of the independent group Americans Elect and the pundits who overhyped the group's efforts. Here's how it begins:
On Thursday, the board of Americans Elect folded its presidential nominating process after the set of declared candidates repeatedly failed to muster the support required to receive the group’s backing. Despite spending $35 million on “swank offices”, a fancy website, and expensive ballot access drives, Americans Elect ultimately attracted neither a credible candidate nor widespread support.
If you read the op-ed pages, you might have had different expectations...
Read the whole thing for more.
Nice article, Brendan. The pundits blew it.
Here are two definitions of "pundit":
1. a learned person, expert, or authority.
2. a person who makes comments or judgments, especially in an authoritative manner; critic or commentator.
IMHO #2 is closer to the mark than #1 for most of our media pundits. Few are truly experts in the fields in which they opine, but all of them have mastered the authoritative manner.
Posted by: David in Cal | May 18, 2012 at 05:12 PM
a person who makes comments or judgments, especially in an authoritative manner; critic or commentator.
Posted by: Jordan 4 Military Blue | May 20, 2012 at 03:13 AM