Max Kolonko


Max Kolonko is a Polish-American producer, writer, author, broadcast journalist and a U.S. correspondent for a number of television news organizations.
From 2001-2005, he was a senior White House correspondent for TVP, the national television in Poland.
He is the producer, director and creator of a popular, Telly winning, television series, Discovering America with Max Kolonko, a series on various aspects of American life. He is the President of Media 2000 Communications, a New York City television production company.
He is a contributor to The Huffington Post.
In July 2020 he proclaimed himself President of Poland in a video released on YouTube. His self-proclamation was based on a petition signed by around eleven thousand people on his internet site Revolution, the self-proclamation being obviously in contradiction with Polish election laws.

MaxTV

Kolonko is the founder of "MaxTV – Telling It Like It Is", an independent television channel on YouTube. Within six months of its inception in November 2012 and following the presidential elections in the United States, MaxTV jumped from over 100,000 subscribers to over 400,000, ranking it among the top Polish-language channels hosted by the site. By December 2014, MaxTV was the most popular opinionated news program created by YouTuber in Poland with over 39 million views. Kolonko has used this forum to petition the Polish government for change, including a 2013 decision to jail protestors there. In his commentaries, Kolonko mainly criticizes political and media establishment, political correctness, Polish national defects and social matters.

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