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ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by afavour »

_9za9 wrote: post #156
Sparkle-san wrote: post #124

> The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel. Regardless of what Kimmel said and if you think it was appropriate or not, we are seeing this administration use this as an opportunity to trample on the…

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Not quite as simple as that. The FCC chief threatened ABC just today:

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-...

If Nexstar was acting in reaction to what Carr said there’s a First Amendment argument to be made. They also require FCC approval for a merger right now, it’s not difficult to see the quid pro quo potential.

The argument would at least be heard by a judge.

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Post by wstrange »

vFunct wrote: post #39

What'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.

Well, you have Larry Ellison and Elon doing their best to corner social media - so I think the right wing has it's bases covered.

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Post by tzs »

_9za9 wrote: post #156
Sparkle-san wrote: post #124

> The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel. Regardless of what Kimmel said and if you think it was appropriate or not, we are seeing this administration use this as an opportunity to trample on the…

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>>> The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel

Last I checked, the FCC is part of the government.

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Post by davesque »

potato3732842 wrote: post #149
davesque wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Call me old fashioned, but I do expect for things like this not to happen in an open, democratic society whose founding document explicitly declares free speech to be sacrosanct. Update: "things like this" is meant to refer to the act of suspending Kimmel's show in response to the specific, rather innocuous, comments he made in his monologue

Which "this" are you referring to, the shooting, the endorsement of it or the firing over the endorsement of it? All of them are bad but the ones on the left end of the sentence are more bad than the ones on the right. Edit: The endorsements and firings broadly speaking, not regards to anything specific to Kimmel or ABC

How did Kimmel endorse the shooting? Make an argument. Show me where and how he endorsed the shooting.

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Post by CamperBob2 »

ceejayoz wrote: post #155
CamperBob2 wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...but i wouldn't consider a leader who operated concentration camps to be leftist by any stretch. And that's my cue to take yet another hit to my HN karma by asking, incredulously, "WTF are they teaching kids in school these days?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America... > During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. > During World War II, the camps were referred to both as relocation centers and concentration camps by government o…

Very good, you've addressed half of the proposition. Now do the other half, specifically the part about how True Leftists don't do things like that.

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Post by thatswrong0 »

xp84 wrote: post #123
Bud wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neither of those things occurred, here. Kimmel's remarks were extraordinarily mild, and they also happen to be entirely true.

Nobody has provided any evidence that I've seen that the murderer was motivated by a right-wing anything, and frankly as the least logical conclusion it needs sources. I read that the person who turned him in (or an acquaintance) said that he was the only leftist in a family of hard right people. [Apologies for the lack of source; I read it as news was breaking and don't have the link] It's a nonsensical argument tha…

> it's nonsensical to believe that someone beloved by most people in the right wing would be targeted by a fellow right-winger

Look up groypers and Nick Fuentes - he's a right winger who was NOT a fan of Charlie Kirk and amassed a following about it. There is _some_ very mild evidence to believe that it's possible (I personally don't think that's the case FWIW)

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Post by potato3732842 »

afavour wrote: post #148
potato3732842 wrote: post #128

The desire to not catch a (arguably deserved in some individual cases) bullet is an incredibly unifying sentiment on both sides of the isle and between the elected officials, the permanent bureaucracy and those aspiring to be either. It just baffles me that people think they can say things that "turn up the heat" or "endorse the furtherance of current trends" and not expect some part of system (including big companie…

Kimmel didn’t even criticise Kirk. He’s a mainstream TV comedian and nothing he said “turned up the heat”. The reality is very simple: Nexstar wants federal approval for a merger. They know engaging in this censorship increases the likelihood of their merger being approved. So you’re exactly as jaded as you should be, just with the wrong target.

I guess I really nailed it with that last sentence then.
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