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

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Post by barney54 »

suzdude wrote: post #319
andrewchambers wrote: post #220

I've seen a large number of comments online saying the shooter was a trump supporter - I don't really understand where that information comes from. I feel like this is the sort of thing a prediction market might be able sort out.

There are multiple statements from his relatives that his family are "MAGA", his parents are Registered Republicans. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/ty... It seems he was "raised right", with easy access to firearms and ammunition. Items not nearly as common in left voting urban areas. However, Mr. Kimmel's comments centered on the fact that his political leanings, and reasoning for the scho…

The reasoning for the shooting is pretty clear. He told his transgender lover that “I had enough of his [Kirk’s] hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26098852-tyler-robin...

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Post by phendrenad2 »

This feels like an overreach, maybe. The FCC does have the strange task of regulating "false information" [1], but in practice I don't think that gets invoked very often (I'm sure morning DJs would be fired en masse if they were actually held to the standard of proven, objective truth!)

I'm hoping that this is just the high watermark, and not the new standard.

[1] - https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/broadcasting_false_i...

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Post by [deleted] »

pppp wrote: post #179
magicalist wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nexstar, who initially threaten to pull Kimmel's show from all (200) of its stations They also have a $6.2 billion bid for even more local stations by acquiring Tegna, a deal which will have to be approved by the guy at the FCC who yesterday was telling local affiliates to threaten to pull Kimmel's show! https://apnews.com/article/nexstar-tegna-newsnation-cw-trump...

Sorry, after the Tegna deal they will own all three stations in my market. Essentially, the viewpoints we see will be determined by one man.

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Post by apstls »

rajup wrote: post #216

Idk should he be allowed to peddle unhelpful, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories?

Should Fox, Newsmax, OANN, Alex Jones, Tucker, Bannon, the deputy director the the FBI (in a prior gig, to be fair), the president of the United States (current & prior gigs), members of congress, MAGA influencers like Tim Pool, the company paying Tim Pool, the people paying the company that pays Tim Pool, etc, etc, etc, and etc, be allowed to?

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Post by Bratmon »

throwacct wrote: post #327
bediger4000 wrote: post #266

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Heartily agree, but the 1st Amendment is supposed to protect you from FCC commissioners, and presidents and vice presidents restraining your speech, and that certainly looks like what happened here.

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So if the government passed a million-dollar fine for criticism of the ruling party, you would find that acceptable?

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Post by tomhow »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #51

Why has this been flagged?

Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case it's probably fatigue over this general topic, a belief that it doesn't fit within the guidelines for on-topic content, and an expectation that it will lead to another flamewar.

All those concerns are valid but we've turned off the flags now.

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Post by acdha »

kcplate wrote: post #317
iamdelirium wrote: post #274

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> In this case, it is the FCC, an arm of the government, that is pressuring ABC to do this rather than other private citizens. Actually it was a couple of big ABC affiliate owners that started the avalanche, and ABC followed…not any government pressure. You can certainly speculate that the these affiliates had an ulterior motive in their actions to curry favor with the Trump administration, but it’s not unreasonable…

> Actually it was a couple of big ABC affiliate owners that started the avalanche, and ABC followed…not any government pressure.

This is highly misleading: those affiliates were responding to government pressure. The FCC is currently making key decisions for at least one of them[1], following recent decisions by the same government to attack other media organizations, install government political officers at other companies, or forced other companies to provide money or ownership. There’s absolutely no way those decisions were not made without factoring the current environment in.

1. https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/nexstar-tegna-fcc...

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Post by fdschoeneman »

rubyfan wrote: post #289
iamdelirium wrote: post #274

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People can cancel and boycott all they want, that’s not what this is. This is government censorship of an individual they want to punish which is not okay.

It's unclear that was why he was fired.

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Post by suzdude »

throwmeaway222 wrote: post #125
davesque wrote: post #117

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What clip and what was insane?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxqLXndjvQY

Post to a channel where people are calling for the removal of American citizens doesn't really support your argument.

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Post by Bratmon »

tptacek wrote: post #62
armenarmen wrote: post #12

The 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.

This is one of those interminable sprawling message board arguments that has a really simple resolution nobody wants to accept, which is that commitment to free expression and "right/left" are mostly orthogonal, and both the right and the left weaponize commitment to free expression when it makes sense for them to.

But there is a massive difference here. The left uses social pressure to silence people they don't like, the right uses government power to silence people they don't like.

These are not even close to the same.

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