Definition of "punditocracy" [punditocracy]

• A group of pundits who wield great political influence. (noun)

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• "Opposing the punditocracy is like being right about Iraq all along -- someone, the ante for being taken seriously is that you had to have been wrong at the start."
• "Yes, the punditocracy is bad, but pointing out its failure is hardly going to change it."
• "I read that Quayle's-enormous-appeal-to-younger-voters line from Clancy and just bowed my head a defeated man resigned to the fact that our venerated local punditocracy is free to create whatever stupid unreality it wishes in perpetuity."