punditocracy
noun
pun·dit·oc·ra·cy ˌpən-dət-ˈä-krə-sē 
plural punditocracies
: a group of powerful and influential political commentators
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Naturally, the reaction in some far-flung corners of the punditocracy was to make the blanket assumption that Graham was doing shrewd politics. 
Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2022 Over the weekend, this nonsensical characterization of the widest-ranging and most expensive spending bill in American history metastasized among the liberal punditocracy. Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Oct. 2021 Both presidents tapped into a populistic impulse among voters and their interpreters in the punditocracy who want nothing more than for the United States to declare the nation’s overseas commitments won and done. Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021 Or consider the political punditocracy that assumed Donald Trump couldn’t possibly be a serious threat to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and never revised those assumptions. Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2021 If Tanden’s critics have a beef about her administrative skills or qualifications to head the OMB, that’s been barely visible during her confirmation hearings or within the Washington punditocracy. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021 And second place is meaningful by the unwritten measuring sticks that the punditocracy creates. New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020 At the beginning of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, the boasts of its field being the most diverse in history could be heard on high from party leadership and the ever predictable punditocracy. Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 8 Jan. 2020 What’s more, the popularity of streaming is similarly circular: the sheer quantity of what’s streaming also overwhelms the cinematic punditocracy with the sheer quantity of previewing, sifting, recapping, summarizing, comparing, and listing. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2019 See More
Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2022 Over the weekend, this nonsensical characterization of the widest-ranging and most expensive spending bill in American history metastasized among the liberal punditocracy. Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Oct. 2021 Both presidents tapped into a populistic impulse among voters and their interpreters in the punditocracy who want nothing more than for the United States to declare the nation’s overseas commitments won and done. Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021 Or consider the political punditocracy that assumed Donald Trump couldn’t possibly be a serious threat to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and never revised those assumptions. Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2021 If Tanden’s critics have a beef about her administrative skills or qualifications to head the OMB, that’s been barely visible during her confirmation hearings or within the Washington punditocracy. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021 And second place is meaningful by the unwritten measuring sticks that the punditocracy creates. New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020 At the beginning of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, the boasts of its field being the most diverse in history could be heard on high from party leadership and the ever predictable punditocracy. Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 8 Jan. 2020 What’s more, the popularity of streaming is similarly circular: the sheer quantity of what’s streaming also overwhelms the cinematic punditocracy with the sheer quantity of previewing, sifting, recapping, summarizing, comparing, and listing. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
pundit + -cracy
First Known Use
1987, in the meaning defined above