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Pundit Watch
Good news! The Washington Post 
has picked the ten finalists in its "America's Next Great Pundit" contest. I know you don't have time to read them all, so I'll summarize:
Richter: Bring back the Office of Technology Assessment.
Haber: Where I come from, five plus one equals eight. What's more, Nevada will both lose and gain a congressional seat after the 2010 census.
Martin: These days, everybody wants it all. Also: my dad is driving my mother crazy.
Jackson: Barack Obama needs to stop whining. Bush 43 wasn't so bad.
Gyamfi: Cable news is stupid.
Huffman: I want to be the next Dave Barry.
Esper: Healthcare is an important issue.
Khalil: Surprise! Arab-Americans watch Fox News.
Khan: Women like to yak, and Obama should capitalize on this.
I know what you're thinking: this is only nine columnists. What's the deal? Answer: there's a tenth, but for some reason her column isn't up yet. Not sure why.
By the way, the ten winners include a Nobel Prize winner, a Bush 43 assistant secretary of commerce (guess which one), a senior correspondent for the American Prospect, an analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, a former researcher at the Kennedy School of Government, an Atlantic Media fellow, and a small-town newspaper editor. Not exactly a crowd of just plain folks. It might have been more fun to read the other 4,790 entries.
they just showed perfectly
they just showed perfectly why i don't read the washington post. boring boring worthless drivel. they could fit the news value of their entire newspaper in one corner of the front page of the NYT. sad. why did they paint it as a citizen columnist contest and then pick people who are already journalists? further, why did they pick people who write the same non-researched crap op/eds the rest of their writers write? "i have an opinion and it goes like this:......" hilarious. wake up wapo.....in order to have a good newspaper you need to spend actual money to pay people to do INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM. i know you pretend to do this but you don't actually do it. neither do any of your other publications you own: slate, newsweek, etc. all have become irrelevant.
Yeah, I kind of noticed the pattern
But did not mention it on my blog, because it would make me a sore loser.
I'll point people to this.
Scientists have wanted the
Scientists have wanted the OTA back since Newt killed it. Problem is, it has powerful opponents throughout congress. I heard Reid in particular hated it -- although I'm not sure he's been on the record on why. I assume it got in the way of wheeling and dealing or wasn't worth the effort defending it's budget from Republicans.
Anyway, he gets my vote. The rest all remind me of why I don't read short, cute, ironic editorials. And no matter what, I probably won't be buying a newspaper.
Mara Gay's entry
Mara Gay's entry is actually on the Post site but only linked through her name. It can be found here .
Summary: The job market is tough for young people. They should form an union.
Wait a minute...
didn't Richard Cohen already write all those columns?
I'm so glad...
I thought about it. I'm so glad I didn't bother. Hard to believe that was the best of the bunch, really.
Truly pathetic...
Kudos for being able to get through all 9 (or 10). I tried, but gave up after about the 5th or so (I gave up after the "I know some Arabs who watch Fox" article... is it a trend, is it common, what was the point of that piece?). None of the entries were educational, entertaining, or even interesting. Nobody could even manage provocative. The closest to succeed was Richter: hey, maybe bringing back the OTA *is* a good idea...that particular article told me absolutely nothing about the idea, but at least it's an idea rather than just warmed over CW.
What's pathetic though isn't the contributors, it's that obviously this is how WaPo sees their profession. Zero though, zero knowledge, zero investigation... It's not just that the WaPo editorialists fail to inform their readers or make their readers think, it's obvious that they don't even think that's the goal of an editorial writer.
all of them available
im still waiting for americas first great pundit. Bam. ok but they would never make all of the submissions available because people would probably find that there are some good ones in there and that the wapo is bad at talent evaluation.
www.thegauchopolitico.blogspot.com
I am going with Mara Gay for
I am going with Mara Gay for the win. A pundit dedicated solely to catering to Millenials' senses of entitlement and betrayal is surely a winner. The Post could be an early adopter for this growth industry.
Huh?
I never understood the contest in the first place -- or at least how it could be run without a dash of irony. I feel silly even pointing out that "punditry" is dead in the twenty-first century, that there is so much information pouring out, and so many people offering to interpret it, that the idea of a new Walter Lippmann, providing us the "inside scoop" or interpreting all domestic and international events, is moronic. At least Instapundit got the joke when he named his blog...
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