A new year tinged with old worries as 2021 gets closer

摘要

A friend who has spent his life working in TV news said the industry coined a phrase for when a segment or show was hyped to viewers with titillating promos and then fell flat: Anticippointment. Obviously, a combination of anticipation and disappointment, it’s a word that fits a lot of things other than just newscast hype. Some in the coal industry are getting the feeling that next year may include a dose of anticippointment – oddly enough, spellcheck says that’s really a word – after months of 2021 being hyped as the year the U.S. thermal coal industry gets a taste of a rebound.