Date:  Thu, 4 Sep 1997 11:13:38 -0400
From:  Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IS2.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Re: FAMILY NAME (film review); Media-cracy

At 10:21 AM 9/4/97 -0400, you (Barry Popik) wrote:
>MEDIA-CRACY
>
>  Media-cracy is a combination of "media" and "democracy" made to sound
>like "mediocrity."
>  I've seen it before in the Daily News, and it's in today's Daily News, 3
>September 1997, pg. 41, col. 4:
>
>  JANE LEEVES: Faults tabloid media-cracy for Diana's death.
>
>  Media-cracy is not in the HDAS H-O. Has it caught on recently?
>

I don't know if the word was coined there or not, but _Mediacracy_ is the
title of a Kevin Phillips book (1975). I've seen the word a few times in the
popular press in the last year or two. Someone with access to NEXIS may wish
to search it.

Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nyu.edu or downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]is2.nyu.edu