David Kronke is just another damn unemployed journalist. He created and wrote the vaguely appreciated “Mayor of Television” blog for the Los Angeles Daily News, which expressed its gratitude by pink-slipping him.

Blog Entries by David Kronke

The NBC Strategy to Save America

3 Comments | Posted December 1, 2009 | 03:29 PM (EST)


General Electric must be pinching itself right now: it's about to unload its share of NBC-Universal on Comcast. Ostensibly, it's win-win for both sides: GE dumps an underperforming albatross, while Comcast becomes a media conglomerate that almost rivals Rupert Murdoch's empire, only without those pesky, antiquated newspapers Rupert is so...

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Ellen DeGeneres Named New White House Press Secretary

1 Comments | Posted September 16, 2009 | 10:15 AM (EST)


WASHINGTON, D.C. - Less than a week after being named the newest judge on the hit TV reality show American Idol, comic and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres has added yet another high-profile job to her already busy schedule: She'll serve as the new White House Press Secretary, replacing Robert Gibbs,...

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Rep. Joe Wilson Heckles Great Moments in History

22 Comments | Posted September 10, 2009 | 12:57 PM (EST)


Just in case South Carolina didn't already have enough to be embarrassed about, given the now-notorious proclivities of its hiker-in-chief governor, Mark Sanford, Republican Congressman Joe Wilson managed the unthinkable overnight. In heckling President Barack Obama, he not only ensured that a country that had pretty much never heard of...

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How Right-Wing Pundits Would Spin News That Obama Had Rescued A Child From Drowning

11 Comments | Posted September 9, 2009 | 10:55 AM (EST)


Michelle Malkin: Why didn't Obama save every child from drowning? Why just one? This myopia stems from his old, outdated liberal-elitist sensibility which states that the only drowning child worth saving is the one who has the connections and the wherewithal to be in the general vicinity of America's so-called...

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Glenn Beck Answers Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire

2 Comments | Posted September 4, 2009 | 01:09 PM (EST)


What is your idea of perfect happiness?
 Having the person who I finally cajole into shooting Obama blow me afterwards.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
 I'm insulted by the question's implication. Are you suggesting I have flaws and therefore do not deserve to voice my...

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How Fox News Would Have Covered World History

17 Comments | Posted June 11, 2009 | 11:13 AM (EST)


Sadly, Fox News Channel has been on the air since launching on Oct. 7, 1996, with the declared intention of destroying Bill Clinton and dragging his corpse through the streets of Washington. I say "sadly," not because it's a pity the cable-news network exists (get your mind out of the...

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