Keep 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…
ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
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Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#22Keep 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…
Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#23Keep 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…
Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#24The 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 is simply good at PR. People forget that they invented cancel culture. Dixie Chicks anyone?
Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#25The 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.
Is there some way the two sides could reliably arrive at a truce on the issue of cancellation?
Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#26Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#27The 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 is simply good at PR. People forget that they invented cancel culture. Dixie Chicks anyone?
One of the defining characteristics of the right is not placing any value on logical consistency. Being a hypocrite will not lose you any support with them.
Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#28Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#29The 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 is simply good at PR. People forget that they invented cancel culture. Dixie Chicks anyone?