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Pundits: Central to democracy, or partisan spewers of opinion who destroy trust

  • Written by Mike McDevitt, Professor of journalism and media studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Pundits: Central to democracy, or partisan spewers of opinion who destroy trustTwo pundits – Jonah Goldberg, left, and Paul Begala, second from right – discus politics with journalists Kristen Holmes and Jake Tapper.The Conversation, CC BY-SA

Walter Lippmann, who lived from 1889 to 1974, was an early and prime example of the public intellectual as pundit commenting on news of the day.

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