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September 25, 2007
Chicago Sun-Times brags on Ebert's "number one pundit" status
"Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, bested them and others to be named the most influential pundit in America by Forbes magazine," writes Maureen O'Donnell in a front-pager. "Forbes analyzed market research on more than 60 top pundits in current events, entertainment, law, politics and sports. Ebert "appeals to 70 percent of the demographic and [his] long career makes him well known to well over half the population,'' wrote Forbes' Tom Van Riper... The magazine's list of top pundits is "very impressive company,'' Ebert said by e-mail. "It never occurred to me anyone would make such a survey, especially since I never thought of myself as a pundit. . . . Maybe it means movies are more popular than politics, and non-partisan.'' ... "Despite all my health adventures, I can still see, hear, and type, and now that print reviews are my only way to exercise the full range of my communication abilities, I find I write them with something approaching bliss,'' Ebert said.... "As one of my friends observed, 'Even if you lose your voice, Ebert, you've already talked more than enough.' "
Posted by Ray Pride at September 25, 2007 05:25 PM
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