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. Maybe Jon Stewart should replace Katie Couric
We’ve discussed in the past how viewers of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report" not only tend to be getting a fair amount of actual information alongside the jokes and how they just sort of tend to be smart and flaunt it by, you know, reading books.
“(R)espondents who seemed to know the most about what’s going on — who were able to identify major public figures, for example — were likely to be viewers of fake news programs like Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report”; those who knew the least watched network morning news programs, Fox News or local television news.”
Color me shocked. No, wait: What’s the word? Oh, that’s right: Unsurprised.
More depressingly, the study found that only 69% of those polled knew Dick Cheney was Vice President, less than knew who Dan Quayle was back in the day, and he wasn't even secretly running the country. How many guys must Cheney shoot in the face to earn a little recognition? The study added, "despite the fact that education levels have risen dramatically over the past 20 years, public knowledge has not increased accordingly.” Come on, people: Jon Stewart can't do all your heavy lifting for you.
And, since you can never make too much fun of Nancy Grace, here’s Stewart on last Thursday’s show.