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ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
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#52Wow, I will have to check out his comments. All around me everyone is becoming more anonymous on social media, if not deleting it. It is fascinating to see the cultural reverberations of this motivated killing!
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#53Believe it or not, alienating politics isn't great for business. Neither is peddling conspiracy theories.
The FCC threatened to revoke ABC's broadcast license. That is government censorship, a direct attack on free speech.
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#54The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. Seems that now they've adopted a "turnaround is fair play" mentality.
> The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. Have you been in a coma for that decade?
Man, can you at least elaborate? This kind of comment isn’t what I wanna see HN devolve into.
He’s definitely right with that sentence. Do you not think it’s generally true that the right has been on the defensive with regards to cancel culture, and thus is constantly preaching about how cancelling is wrong?
The few times they’ve gotten to go on the offensive, they play the same game, cancelling whoever it is they’re upset about. It’s horseshoe theory all over again.
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#55The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. Seems that now they've adopted a "turnaround is fair play" mentality.
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#57What's the end game of these right-wing legacy media? The median age of TV viewers is like 65. How do they expect to maintain any viewership once all the elderly people die off? The only thing people watch anymore are live sports and local news, and even those are showing signs of declining.
There was an article recently that basically said lots of moves on the right aren’t strategic they’re ideological. So yeah, I think the right really wants to control media, and isn’t worried about the inevitable backlash.
But I do keep thinking about the fact that the move to the right among young men, will probably pretty quickly reverse itself, if they keep going after media/video games/porn, etc.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. Have you been in a coma for that decade?
Man, can you at least elaborate? This kind of comment isn’t what I wanna see HN devolve into. He’s definitely right with that sentence. Do you not think it’s generally true that the right has been on the defensive with regards to cancel culture, and thus is constantly preaching about how cancelling is wrong? The few times they’ve gotten to go on the offensive, they play the same game, cancelling whoever it is they’re…
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#60Keep in mind that Kimmel has been hinting about retiring for a couple years now, his contract was up in the air, the "late night television show" category is evaporating (if there's still even a Tonight Show in 10 years, it'll be purely for nostalgia), and this sends Kimmel out in a blaze of glory. I think it's too easy to sort of anthropomorphize these kinds of conflicts --- Kimmel's show has a large staff, and he's…
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