invasion of the buzz-snatchers/buzzsnatchers

I can never get enough of new terms to describe annoying media people, simply because there are so many annoying media people, and they're annoying in so many disparate ways. Fortunately, an unannoying colleague, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, just coughed up a new one: buzz-snatcher. (I leave it to copy editors to debate on their blogs whether the term should be fast-tracked for compounding into a single word; we can only hope.) Rachel came up with the term to describe writers who shamelessly glom on to somebody else's buzz, such as the odious Henry Blodget—the Wall Street "analyst" (ha ha ha har ... hum) who hyped all those ludicrous Internet stocks that left your E*trade portfolio in ruins. Blodget, of course, has lately been covering the Martha Stewart trial for e-magazine Slate.com to generate some buzz for himself in his new role as "journalist." Magical, isn't it?