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Kimmel returns Tuesday

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JJSPC said:
For everyone who thinks this kind of pressure started with Trump. https://www.mystateline.com/news/politics/google-admits-biden-censorship/
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Posting a link from a Nexstar station is next-level. And the headline is problematic:

"Google Admits Biden Censorship".

You can't admit something someone else did. It's called an allegation or an accusation, not an admission.

But yeah---Google itself is alleging that it was pressured by the Biden admnistration to remove disinformation during the COVID pandemic. Nobody else is alleging that, much less providing evidence. But it's the story Google is telling to justify re-instating accounts it banned during a public health crisis.

And even the New York Times is reporting the same story, although it's got the headline right:

"YouTube to Reinstate Accounts Banned Over Content Related to the Pandemic":


But, c'mon---no one thinks "this kind of pressure started with Trump. White House Chiefs of Staff and other senior administration officials---occasionally including the President himself-- have been burning up the phone lines to the media to complain and cajole since....well, the telephone.

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But the Google pressure---which did not involve federally-issued licenses, and was about potentially life-threatening misinformation, is quite a hike from what they went after Kimmel for.
 
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michael hagerty said:
Posting a link from a Nexstar station is next-level. And the headline is problematic:

"Google Admits Biden Censorship".

You can't admit something someone else did. It's called an allegation or an accusation, not an admission.

But yeah---Google itself is alleging that it was pressured by the Biden admnistration to remove disinformation during the COVID pandemic. Nobody else is alleging that, much less providing evidence. But it's the story Google is telling to justify re-instating accounts it banned during a public health crisis.

And even the New York Times is reporting the same story, although it's got the headline right:

"YouTube to Reinstate Accounts Banned Over Content Related to the Pandemic":


But, c'mon---no one thinks "this kind of pressure started with Trump. White House Chiefs of Staff and other senior administration officials---occasionally including the President himself-- have been burning up the phone lines to the media to complain and cajole since....well, the telephone.

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But the Google pressure---which did not involve federally-issued licenses, and was about potentially life-threatening misinformation, is quite a hike from what they went after Kimmel for.
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The internet needs less disinformation not more. News stations need the same.
 
TheBigA said:
Let's broaden this a bit. We know that WTBS and WGN operated as "superstations" for many years. Could ABC do that with WABC? Make deals with cable companies to put that station in markets where there are network holes. Also do geo-fenced streaming, where the stations would be available in those markets. Bypass broadcast TV completely.
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Sounds interesting on paper to make KABC-TV, WABC-TV, KGO-TV, KTRK-TV, WLS-TV into superstations but that would have to be implemented in the 1980's-1990's in the age of getting analog TV signals by KU Satellite and we have to imagine if Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, never existed. Except we live in the era of TV apps. Make ABC Net as a live feed within Hulu live and Disney+ for areas where the local ABC affiliate (as in the local affiliate is by Nexstar or Sinclair) threatens to pre-empt and end ABC affiliation is the closet thing to we can have to a modern version of a superstation.


But back to this one Nexstar and Sinclair can pre-empt anything they don't like but it comes at the cost of affiliation deals, ratings and carriage agreements with the TV providers it does not matter if its Jimmy Kimmel or the View.
 
NBC News has been "live blogging" from the Jimmy Kimmel show, quoting a lot from his monolog:

www.nbcnews.com

'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' returns after ABC suspension: Highlights, audience reaction and more

Catch up on what you missed during the return of ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' on Tuesday, including host Kimmel's monologue and the early reaction from viewers.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

In his opening monologue, Kimmel got emotional when discussing the suspension. “You understand it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man," he said, referring to Kirk. "I don’t think there’s anything funny about it."
He went on to say his show "is not important." "What is important," he said, "is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.” He took direct aim at President Donald Trump, saying "he did his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show."
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We have yet to see it here on the West Coast. Another 2 hours from now. I hate that the networks don't start prime time out here until 8pm. The late night shows start at 11:35pm. We're last to see everything .. except Hawaii and Alaska.
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K.M. Richards said:
Given the huge number of cancellations by Hulu subscribers over this, that may not matter as much as it used to. Again, there's always ABC's site, which requires no subscription (or even a login) to access.
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Are you perhaps logged in with MSO credentials? The current latest episode's thumbnail (September 17th's) has a padlock icon and gives a message about this video only being available for users of participating TV providers. The others (including September 16th's) are freely viewable.
 
yeoldeschool said:
Are you perhaps logged in with MSO credentials? The current latest episode's thumbnail (September 17th's) has a padlock icon and gives a message about this video only being available for users of participating TV providers. The others (including September 16th's) are freely viewable.
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Bear something in mind while you nitpick the obvious.

I posted that yesterday when the last show had been the September 16 one, so if there is an embargo imposed by ABC for tonight's show (perhaps by time zone) I would not have seen that padlock icon on what was already a one week old show.

And, since you enjoy nitpicking: The "current latest episode" is not September 17. Today is the 23rd.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Bear something in mind while you nitpick the obvious.

I posted that yesterday when the last show had been the September 16 one, so if there is an embargo imposed by ABC for tonight's show (perhaps by time zone) I would not have seen that padlock icon on what was already a one week old show.

And, since you enjoy nitpicking: The "current latest episode" is not September 17. Today is the 23rd.
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I am not nitpicking. Here is how the link you gave looks right now, at 11:07 PM PDT on September 23.

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The latest episode listed there (September 17), even though it is now a week out of date, is locked.

That's what I was pointing out, and it's why I asked if your browser was perhaps logged in with MSO credentials -- to allow you to see the latest episode in spite of what I see. Because what I see is that they apparently lock whatever the latest episode is, so it can only be seen by cable/satellite subscribers.
 
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