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

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Post by asdff »

mikepurvis wrote: post #573
asdff wrote: post #563

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>healthcare reform, childcare, higher education, common sense gun laws, infrastructure investments. Funny you imagine there is consensus with any of that. The right doesn't want government healthcare. They don't want government sponsored childcare. They could care less about higher education. They want no gun laws. And they don't want black people to benefit from infrastructure. There is no forming consensus with tha…

Outside of the 24hr news bubble, I believe the reality is that there is a lot of common ground on these supposed hot button issues, for example on the guns issue alone there is broad support for universal background checks and an assault weapons ban: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/07/25/poll-majority--supp... But it's hard to make it happen when Fox paints any kind of gun measure as crazy leftist tyranny and then…

About the only thing there is consensus on between the parties, vs americans at large, is banning gun sales to the mentally ill. In terms of assault weapons ban there is a substantial divide between republicans and democrats. Your source shows this too.

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024...

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Post by bufferoverflow »

shirro wrote: post #466

Kimmel discussed the political response to Kirk's death, not the man, which is a class move that respects his family and the law. I can't see the problem. How many companies, media people and politicians need to bend the knee before someone stands up and says this has all gone far enough?

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Post by bayesianbot »

shirro wrote: post #562
Pxtl wrote: post #539

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that he gave Trump a fig leaf of an excuse to go after him, and that's all they needed.

An Australian reporter recently asked Trump how much money he has made since returning to office and if it is ethical for a person in his position. His org got locked out of a press conference in retaliation and we get the mafia boss threats about it not being good for our country to ask those sorts of questions. Anyone living in the USA should by now have made a decision where their line in the sand lies. Without a…

Trump also said he's gonna tell Australia's prime minister about the reporter, which is kinda nuts (and hilarious?)

Old track, but just hard to imagine what would have happened if Biden was asked about his corruption and answered like that. But it's hypothetical anyway, since no previous president would ever be rug-pulling crypto scams or selling watches and bibles.

I just can't believe how weekly, or sometimes daily, I share these wild stories and videos with some friends and they keep behaving like anything about this is normal. There are so many things that would make me go WTF even without the context of the constant grift it all comes with.

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Post by _DeadFred_ »

troad wrote: post #379
RF_Enthusiast wrote: post #293

I’m at a loss of what to watch as far as television goes in the US, between the government threatening to intervene in content, corporations that own television networks with little regard for journalistic integrity, and PBS downsizing. I’m pretty much exclusively watching NHK from Japan through a Roku app.

So, hear me out, books are pretty great! Lots of people say things like "I know I should read, but it's this whole thing ..." and then you find out they've been stuck on page 3 of Wuthering Heights for forty years, because someone convinced them they ought to be reading that, and it's haunted them from their night-stand ever since. Don't let anyone tell you what to read, pick up something that sounds fun to you, and…

Red Rising caused me a lot of anxiety to help ease me off the media anxiety machine.

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Post by _DeadFred_ »

d0gsg0w00f wrote: post #427
AfterHIA wrote: post #307

This is the reaction from the part of the political consciousness that just realized it/its children are not safe anywhere. They're going to continue to use this as a justification for retaliation. You have to realize that the correct answer to this is, "conversions not killings" but the uppity software developer, "middle class" either needs to mobilize itself or the next wave is you getting fired from your dev job b…

But it's already like this. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have survived in tech if people knew I was a conservative. I've always felt like I would be punished if people knew.

I was a tech-bro type libertarian dumb ass and my coworkers (even the Pacifica listeners) did not give a fuck. They were all super kind. Celebrated when my kids were born and bought baby clothes. And I was in Santa Cruz with ultra liberal types.

Then I moved to a very red state remote. And none of my co-workers cared until I got a new boss out off Chicago who was excited to have someone on his team that lived in God's country. But for him I wasn't conservative enough (I made a joke about not wanting to use my aerospace degree to make nukes so I switched to software. Guess what he did before software? FML) and I was gone for my wrong think. And I don't think I passed his 'God's country' purity test.

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Post by [deleted] »

billfor wrote: post #546

FCC aside, how is it any different from ABC canceling Rosanne Barr because of something she said? They may cancel whomever and whatever they want, which in the past has been due to pressure from the outside, justified or not. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roseanne-barr-obama-adviser-...

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Post by uncircle »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #352

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/broadcastin…

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

I’ve been hearing a variation of this for at least 9 months. Can’t help but see Americans as frogs in the boiling water. Surely it can’t get hotter than this, can it?

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Post by dawnerd »

wqaatwt wrote: post #511
JLO64 wrote: post #402

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm somewhat convinced that (at least among the younger generation) the role that these talkshow hosts held has already been replaced by live streamers and podcasters. Even Conan has transitioned into primarily focusing on podcasts while others refused to adapt and stuck to the networks. 10 years ago I'm fairly certain these moves would have been met with a strong reaction from the public, but now nobody cares...

There was a strong reaction from the public. Unfortunately that’s why this happened.. affiliate networks refusing to air his show probably had a much bigger impact than the FCC

FCC threatened Nexstar and all the others that run affiliate networks. Nexstar is trying to merge with Tegna. It's pretty clear how this was a very easy threat for the FCC to make. Without the affiliates ABC has no real audience outside of streaming, and late night shows have already been lagging with ratings. I hate it but really what other option did they have? Disney has never been a company to really fight back unless it was about their bottom line.

https://www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-media-group-inc-enters-into-d...

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Post by gsf_emergency_2 »

Natsu wrote: post #194
enlightens wrote: post #172

The summary at the top of the page says > ABC said it was pulling the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show off the air “indefinitely” after controversial comments by its host about the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. but the article says the following, which is entirely different: > “The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everyth…

I guess he didn't see the info that the police released? https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/us/text-message-tyler-robinso...

Family is staunchly republican, tho the perp himself went indy in the last few elections. Being gay doesn't say anything, Thiel's gay bf killed himself for what seems like political issues too (& might have been Indy like perp-- or, say sama)

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/9/15/charlie-kirk-ki...

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