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commentariat [ˌkɒmənˈtɛərɪæt] n (Communication Arts / Broadcasting) (Communication Arts / Journalism & Publishing) the journalists and broadcasters who analyse and comment on current affairs [from commentator + proletariat] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The first baby born through in vitro fertilization came not as a shock but as an affirmation, exhibit A to the commentariat who had for a decade promised that the day of the test-tube baby was nigh. Lawrence Kaplan, in attacking realists and other pragmatic conservatives in 2000, opined: "Were foreign policy intellectuals held to the same standards of accountability as doctors and lawyers, a substantial slice of the commentariat would have been sued for malpractice or disbarred"--commenting on the "declinists" at the time of the Soviet collapse. Perhaps," he noted, "this is because the commentariat widely claimed that the president's recent decision to seek a new UN Security Council resolution on the postwar reconstruction of lraq was a sharp break with policy. |
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