David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Killing habeas corpus: The upside...
... is that it gives satirists plenty of material to work with. Until, of course, they're safely locked up to protect the rest of us.
While we’ve all been obsessed with the Mark Foley scandal – which, let’s face it, really isn’t particularly sexy; in fact, it’s pretty icky, so why are we so obsessed with it? – Congress has ingeniously eviscerated the Constitution. The recently passed Military Commissions Act erases 900 years of the concept of innocent until proven guilty, and so much more.
An example: Let’s say you disagree with Your Mayor and think “Men in Trees� is a good show, and that you have the temerity to state this aloud. I could have you put away forever for your obvious blasphemy. Bully for me. You, you're probably not so happy.
So how have our TV Friends – knowing that, under this bill, they could easily be labeled “enemy combatants� and be silenced forever, no questions asked – responded?
There may be positives outside of turbo-loading comics with cannon fodder, but so far, this will have to do. Almost certainly, that Robin Williams movie "Man of the Year" will be equally hard-hitting in its approach to the issues of the day.
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How is this getting by mainstream newspapers? There was not a word of it in the Miami Herald or Washington Post online.
Posted by: Suzy Q | October 11, 2006 4:01 PM