commentator, columnist, pontificator, ranter, bloviator, journalist, controversialist, yakker, satirist, blogger, prognosticator, loudmouth, commentate, watcher, blowhard, spinmeister, gasbag, panellist, sportscaster, correspondant, doomsayer, bigmouth, windbag, anchorman, pessimist, basher, presenter, sportswriter, editorialist, broadcaster, curmudgeon, journo, polemicist, agony aunt, coanchor, newsperson, grumbler, correspondent, interviewer, scribbler, guru, winker, newsman, corespondent, drivel, dittohead, baiter, psephologist, soundbite, reporter, doyen, anchorperson, twitterer, gossip columnist, harrumphing, futurologist, sycophant, junkie, newshound, soothsayer, supremo, pillock, gadfly, muckraker, nitwit, humourist, writer, comedian, blabbermouth, flapdoodle, newscaster, provocateur, nutcase, ignoramus, bigot, critic, buffoon, cynic, apologist, maven, establishmentarian, announcer, chatterers, commentary, lickspittle, leftie, swearer, nutter, propagandist, gabber, talkshow, philosopher, humorist, theorist, naysayer, twit, newsreader, newswriter, darling, weathercaster, beeb, showboater, pundits, rabbi, contemporary, professor, banker, doctor, expert, historian, astrologer, dignitary, lawyer, librarian, saint, savants, celebrities, educator, impresario

scholar, scholarly person, student

initiate, learned person, savant