Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics

In looking up the author's What Liberal Media I came acroos this interesting piece, from the hyperborean age of emerging punditocracy. Omit the last chapter and the book still works very well as commentary for the age of Bush II. Beginning in the nineteenth century (or else the pamphleteering of the American Revolution)with the appropriation of the Hindu term 'pandit', the book recounts the saga of the first great pundit, Lippman, thence to the age of the Reagan pundit wars. Good starting point for the current media debriefing going on in the reaction to the Bush era.