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. Colbert does it again
Once again, Stephen Colbert has launched an attack on Wikipedia.
As you may recall, a while back Colbert described "Wikeality," suggesting that just as one should not trust a suicide note that concludes “Dictated but not read,� one can't really trust an encyclopedia built upon consensus. To that end, he asked fans to vandalize the Wikipedia entry on "Elephant." (The page still bears his imprint.)
Tonight, he took on Wikipedia again, spinning off the story that Microsoft had paid people to go in and change its Wikipedia entry to make it more positive. He then offered $5 to anyone who would change the site's entry on "reality" to read, "Reality has become a commodity."
Sure enough, within 12 minutes of Colbert's request, "Reality" had, indeed, become a commodity. Alas, five minutes later, Colbert's definition had been removed, though Philip K. Dick's assessment that "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" remained intact.
Of course, who knows what the page will look like in another 10 minutes?