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English
Etymology
Blend of media + idiot.
Noun
mediot (plural mediots)
- (slang, derogatory) A member of the media; a journalist, especially one who makes inaccurate claims in articles.
1993 March 29, David Marc Nieporent, “Mediots and Steinbrenner”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):Now I know there are a lot of mediots who don't like George Steinbrenner for whatever reason -- probably because he treats them the way they treat players. ¶ But on what basis do they keep making the absurd claim that "The Yankees are the best team on paper, but what about the George Steinbrenner factor?"
2015, Linda Nagata, Going Dark, New York, NY: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 90:The scene shifts to a recording studio set up to look like a nineteenth-century library, shelves with wooden shelves holding neat sets of leather-bound books—a cultural motif of intellect. […] The mediot interviewing her gets right to the point. “Dr. Parris, there has been widespread speculation that your lab was devoted to biowarfare research—”
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