COMMENTARIAT

commentariat: translation

n.

Pundits, experts, analysts, and other commentators.

"The polls showed that people did not trust [Clinton], even more than they did not trust him the week before; but they still supported him. It could only be a matter of time, official Washington was deciding, before the proletariat caught up with the Commentariat."

— Andrew Marshall, "Fourteen Days That...Shook the President," The Independent (London)

back-channel media

banalysis

barking head

belligerati

buckraker

chatterati

Colbert bump

dread merchant

earned media

punditariat

punditeer

schmooseoisie

shouting head

welfariat

Media and Journalism

this neoligism is an American pejorative which seeks to align criticism with communism .