Re: Ya know...
Subject: Re: Ya know...
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 8/13/09, 18:11
To: Karen Lancaster <lancaster.karen@gmail.com>

No, it's just a title that exemplifies the general thrust of the column and its subject matter. The editor likes it, and he knows I'll be doing other subjects aside from pundit attacks. We think it has good buzz potential to the extent that a title can do that.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Karen Lancaster <lancaster.karen@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, but how do your other opinion pieces not related to pundits fit in with that? i.e. your Hitler/Obama piece. Will you have to link everything to a pundit?

 
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Coates and I decided on "The Great Pundit Hunt;" will be using my Facebook Africa safari pic for head shot.


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Karen Lancaster <lancaster.karen@gmail.com> wrote:
Tina Brown picked the name "The Daily Beast" from one of her favorite novels, a satire about Fleet Street by Evelyn Waugh.
Maybe you should look through some of your prized Dostoevsky novels or history references or something and find a literary word or term that would be recognizable to the cognoscenti.
(Hey, Cognoscenti is a good word. Also, Literati, Intelligentsia. Combine to create something like Politerati, that's not it, but you know what I mean.)