Dennis Kneale

The Networks: Walking Dead

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One of the most popular shows on television is AMC’s “Walking Dead,” replete with necrotic flesh, apocalyptic violence and the never-ending struggle just to survive.  Which could be a prescient plot line for the TV networks themselves.  For a decade or more we’ve heard that content is king, but now the King is Dead, or […]

Liberals & Intolerance

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Would someone please explain something to me: When did liberals get so utterly intolerant? To me, tolerance of opposing views, almost a kind of patient sympathy for those unenlightened individuals who just don’t get it yet, always had been a hallmark of liberalism:  Live and let live.  But in the Obama era, it’s Live and […]

The Outrage Brigade

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This cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan in the January 20, 2014 issue of The New Yorker says it all. Never before in the history of mankind and communication have so many little people been granted so large a platform to air and share their views.  The Internet revolution should have spawned a Renaissance of insight […]

The Haters on ZeroHedge

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“I’ve always been . . . a provocateur.”  That was my opening line in a mini-profile TV spot that CNBC taped with me as part of its “I am CNBC” campaign a few years ago.  Truth in advertising. But I never expected to provoke the firestorm of bitter, mean-spirited, angry reaction that greeted a simple […]

ZeroHedge Comments on How to be Jobless

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We read ZeroHedge so you don’t have to! Now and then, you get some funny exchanges, albeit ever so rarely. Profanity alert.   Goatboy Rule #11: Kill yourself! World will be so much better without another neurotic, super-ambitious, job-obsessed careerist. Kaiser Sousa i cant stand that bitch made mother fucking banker/wall st. presstitute… Hey Dennis, […]

I Spy Hypocrisy

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Senator Dianne Feinstein of California must be suffering from whiplash.  For months she has defended the NSA’s mass surveillance of billions of phone calls, e-mails, video chats and more, saying it safeguards the nation. “What keeps me up at night, candidly, is another attack against the United States.  And I see enough of the threat […]

How to be Jobless

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Hello guys. Today starts Week 5 of my first-ever stint in the ranks of The Unemployed. So this pretty much makes me an expert, right? Journos are like that. A month of furious outreach has yielded a passel of no’s and a foreboding sense that this could take longer than expected.

GS & @BS

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You see the headlines this morning?  Publishing titan Simon & Schuster kills six-figure book deal with @GSElevator, the Twitter feed that bashes Goldman Sachs and all of Wall Street. The Twitter account professed to report the real overheard exchanges of rapacious GS plunderers.  It was said to be the puckish work of an anonymous writer […]

Passivity Begs Aggression

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That rascally Russian Vladimir Putin–Pooty, as George W. had nicknamed him–is at it again.  He isn’t stopping in Crimea, it now is clear, as he sends masked thugs into police stations across eastern Ukraine.  Passivity by the U.S.–the only superpower left–invites aggression by a diminutive despot with a chip on his shoulder and something to […]

SEC: The Ultimate Insider

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Oh now isn’t this rich: The SEC, stung by its failures in the biggest scam of all time (the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme), is hellbent on a search-and-destroy mission to mete out and vanquish all insider trading. Now a new report shows SEC staffers themselves are extremely effective insider traders. Researchers looked at 56 enforcement […]