Commentators make terrible din in places (7)
I believe the answer is:
pundits
'commentators' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'terrible din in places' is the wordplay.
'terrible' indicates anagramming the letters.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'places' becomes 'puts' ('put' can be a synonym of 'place').
'din' is an anagram of 'ndi'.
'ndi' put inside 'puts' is 'PUNDITS'.
'make' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for pundits that I've seen is " Authorities on particular subjects".)