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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
Forgive my (youthful) ignorance, but how recent of a phenomenon is the political pundit? I'm sure they have existed in one form or another for many years, but it seems that they've come out in full force recently (both sides of the aisle). I think our dependence on the internet has helped them spread like wildfires and I don't like it.
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Punditry has existed forever - I mean, depending on how you frame it, the Federalist Papers were pretty explicitly political commentary/punditry.
I think the difference is in the stances/angles/attitudes taken by those pundits. Compare somebody like old boy George Will with more current models ... and yes, I picked Will because he's boring as hell.
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Oh, and the race thing too.
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Yeah ... I mean, there's one obvious difference in this Presidency, and while discourse may have deteriorated over time (there's an element of "communication changing" that muddies the subjective elements), it kind of fails Occam's Razor to assume the largest changes were coincidental to inauguration, by chance.