Did you maybe mean pundit?
Examples
“I'm not a reader of Blue Oregon. career partisan punditry is a waste of my life, energy, and soul.”
“Apparently punditry is a recession-proof industry, unlike, say, CNN's entire science unit, which got dumped a few weeks ago.”
“My opinion writing and punditry is merging into my academic world.”
“The quality of his political punditry is an entirely different issue. low-tech cyclist Says:”
“PNB, you are a mess sir, incoherant and a lazy thinker, your witticisms lack both wit & incision, your punditry is bereft of puns and dittys.”
“Parental punditry is the most important kind of punditry.”
“That, however, did not stop Mr. Will; after all, Rule #1 of right-wing punditry is to never admit that you're wrong because to do so undermines your credibility.”
“The punditry is working over time to figure out how Bill affects Hillary.”
“All of which raises a crucial question: does Maddow's unlikely success, reliant on her ability to defy cliché and categorization at every turn, signal a move in punditry away from the thuggish and the angry and toward the lucid and sophisticated?”
“To complain about the stupidity of the punditry is stupidity itself when confronted with the realisation that this is the level of insight sought – and paid for – by the majority of the population”
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chained_bear Yes! Isn't it ironic that it's mostly used pejoratively now?
Well, I suppose that's debatable. I offer it simply as a completely non-scientific observation. Nov 15, 2008
sionnach But pundit derives from the Indian word pandit, meaning a wise man, no? Nov 15, 2008
chained_bear But it's also most often used just as a pejorative to describe anyone whose activities you believe to be 'least useful.' I mean, you must admit. Does anyone call himself a pundit? With happiness at the prospect? Two hundred years ago, they'd probably have called Thomas Paine a pundit.
Or a blogger.
*is gleeful at the prospect of a blog at www.commonsense.com, written by Thomas Paine* Nov 14, 2008
skipvia I'm with c_b. This is way up on my list of least favorite words, largely because it describes a person that performs one of the least useful services I can imagine. Nov 14, 2008
chained_bear Ooh, punditocracy's more demeaning and nasty than punditdom. I like it. Nov 14, 2008
sionnach
I agree with c_b, that punditry refers to what pundits do, as opposed to being a collective noun. As she already pointed out, carpenters do carpentry; similarly, devils engage in deviltry and bandits are involved in banditry (really; I looked it up).
It remains unclear whether pandits conduct panditry, or whether hobbitry is an accepted term for describing the behavior and activities of hobbits. But we know that idolaters commit idolatry. And finally, we know that the word to describe "the attitudes and behavior of a narrow-minded, self-satisfied person with an unthinking attachment to middle-class values and materialism" is Babbittry.
One might, I suppose, refer to the entire class of bloviators as the punditocracy, by analogy with words like bureaucracy and aristocracy. Nov 14, 2008
chained_bear Well, yes, unless you're talking about the world of punditism, rather than the pundits themselves.
I hate this word. Nov 14, 2008
skipvia Wouldn't pundits as a collective noun be pundits? Nov 14, 2008
chained_bear I think it sounds much more like the work that pundits do, rather than pundits as a collective entity. Like carpentry is to carpenter.
Perhaps punditdom? Nov 14, 2008
reesetee On Wordie, all things are possible. Nov 14, 2008
rolig Here's a question: Can this word be used as a collective noun for pundits? For example: "In the last election, polls show that no one paid much attention to the opinions of the punditry."
I'm dubious. Nov 14, 2008