Word for the Day

How wrong will the pinheaded pundits be revealed to be tonight?  Quite wrong I imagine.  So, let's call them what they are from the Word-a-Day folks:

commentariat (kom-uhn-TAR-ee-uht) noun

The group of people who provide opinion and analysis of events in the news.

[Blend of commentator and proletariat. The term was first noticed in a 1993 article in the Washington Post.]

Examples of people who comprise the commentariat: talk show hosts and their guests, newspaper and magazine columnists, and political bloggers.

-Anu Garg

"This outcome should not have surprised anyone with the wit to examine the opinion polling. But most of Australia's conservative commentariat  refused, until faced with the actual results, to believe that their  nation's sagacious voters would be so ungrateful as to throw their  favourite overboard."
  - Frank Bongiorno; Rudd Ends Opposition Years; New Statesman (London, UK);  Nov 26, 2007.