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ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live
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I don't know. How can we trust anything?
Independent media is more trustworthy these days.
And that is relevant…how? (Never mind that I’m old as dirt and I knew who he was. Didn’t follow him, but I pay attention to the world around me.)
I don’t know anything the kids are following these days. The only podcasts I listen too are legacy tech ones. I could not name a new artist on the radio if you gave me a million dollars.
Get off my lawn!
Or media that is based outside the U.S. I now get most of my news from international sources that don’t have to kowtow to the current U.S. administration.
Charlie Kirk? The founder of Turning Point USA, one of the largest and most influential right-wing organizations in the country? A man who has spent 12 years touring college campuses and doing impromptu "debates" with college students?
I'm 69. I knew exactly who he was. He'd been in the news fairly regularly.
Don't assume your ignorance of his existence and importance was universal.
I don’t follow conservative politics other than when their policies hit the mainstream. I might have heard his name but I didn’t know much about him.
Always a tweet for everything.
So?
Tucker's firing came after FOX News paid $787.5 million dollars in a defamation suit to Dominion Voting Systems. Most of their on-air hosts lied about the 2020 election, but Tucker was simply viewed internally as the loosest cannon, something Tucker himself recognizes:
Tucker Carlson claims in book Fox News firing was part of $787.5m settlement
Former prime-time host tells biographer he ‘knows’ firing was part of deal to resolve Dominion Voting Systems defamation case
Among the "loose cannon" issues:
Leon Czolgosz
Guiseppe Zangara
Carl Weiss
Jack Ruby
Sirhan Sirhan
Arthur Bremer
John Hinckley
Ted Kaczynski
Dylann Roof
Luigi Mangione
Vance Boelter
Even for right wing comedy, Babylon Bee just in particular is "icky."
They could have. But---Nexstar and Sinclair have 68 ABC affilates between them---roughly 30 percent of ABC's clearances. They'd take a bath on spot rates and the show, if it's profitable, would likely not be, and if it's not profitable, it would be worse.
Plus---and we'll see how Disney ultimately decides (if Kimmel's gone, look for a news release as late as possible on Friday evening)---Disney and ABC have their own issues they need to deal with the current administration about.
Disney may make its money from the First Amendment, but don't think for a moment that it considers money to be secondary.
I added the emphasis. If this was deliberate, and not just some technical glitch, then we're in full-blown Nineteen-Eighty-Four memory-hole territory here.
A corollary to "freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one".
The history of that quote - which turns out to be a whole category of quotes - is extensive. This demonstrates how reliant we've been on the integrity of media owners and operators, and in their resistance to transient political pressures. To put it more plainly, we've been lucky that most of our major media owners have had a spine. Until now.
has Sinclair ever had an issue with SNL or Colbert?
We’ve been in 1984 for a long time.
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