Guilty Pleasures

Cronyism : « The change came, I am told, with the Truman administration, which was accused of appointing friends to government posts without regard to their qualifications. A journalist on the New York Times described this practice as cronyism, so modifying the sense of the word. »

Un mot que l'on retrouve beaucoup de nos jours dans la presse anglo-saxonne, au sein des bilans de la présidence Bush et de l'occupation irakienne.