How pundits get their start: “In 1999, a Fox News executive, vacationing at the Jersey shore, spotted 21-year-old Flavia Colgan on a Philadelphia TV station. She was working in local Democratic politics at the time. Impressed by her looks and comments, the executive hooked her up with network chief Roger Ailes, who quickly gave her a paid-pundit deal. ‘I didn’t know what the word ‘pundit’ was,’ she says. (For the record, it means ‘learned person.’) Now 29, Ms. Colgan does punditry all over TV, including chatting with celebrities about social issues for the syndicated show Extra.”
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