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Is there some way the two sides could reliably arrive at a truce on the issue of cancellation?
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And they also shared this: https://xkcd.com/1357/
Which is describing a very different situation: if ABC decided not to renew Kimmel’s contract, that’s their right as a business. Their listeners didn’t ask for this, the government made an illegal threat to force their business to stop allowing their listeners to have a choice.
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#204What'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.
>What's the end game of these right-wing legacy media?
Probably to wring a few bucks out as they circle the drain in the same fashion as every other old formerly prestigious brand name.
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#205Believe it or not, alienating politics isn't great for business. Neither is peddling conspiracy theories.
Yes, I agree. So let it be business then instead of explicitly making it ideological?
Firing someone for making a political statement is business. You never want to alienate half your consumer base.
COVID is still fresh enough that people should remember. If you were pro or anti anything 5 years ago it probably hurt you since sentiment swung both ways and both positions look silly in hindsight.
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#206Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1357/
Actually not relevant, the pulling came after threats from the FCC: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fcc-jimmy-kimme...
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#207Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1357/
This effort is being lead by the FCC commissioner threatening to pull licenses so you just need the first panel.
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#208Keep 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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Please don't put words I didn't say in between quotation marks as if I had said them.
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#209Sorry but the fact is a government agency (the FCC) pushed for this. This is a completely different thing than Disney deciding to do it on its own. This is a 1st amendment issue.
Which is completely different from when leftists go "we're 'cancelling' this through individual boycott" which a lot of people in this comment section seem to be missing or intentionally misrepresenting.
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You don't have to disregard what Kimmel said, because he hardly even said anything. Relevant portion is the first 8 mins of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk What, in the clip, could reasonably be referred to as "the sickest conduct possible?" No one with a healthy, functioning mind could possibly use that language to talk about Kimmel's comments in that clip.
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MAGA did, in fact, do their best over the weekend to cast the shooter as anything other than one of them. Comments made in poor taste? Maybe? Not really? No poorer taste than the president saying on Fox & Friends that he "couldn't care less" about promoting unity after the Kirk shooting.
Next point, from NYTimes article covering this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-...
"The abrupt decision by the network, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company, came hours after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, assailed Mr. Kimmel’s remarks and suggested that his regulatory agency might take action against ABC because of them."
So yes, ABC/Nexstar are within their editorial rights to make this decision, but that decision came at an awfully conspicuous time. So what, nothing to see here?