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I know the answer is obvious, but, why can't people who don't like what Kimmel said just stop watching his show? Why does it have to be completely pulled?
From the AP news article about this: Kimmel’s comments about Kirk’s death “are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse,” said Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar’s broadcasting division.
Has this man never seen a standup comedian in his life?
If they just stop watching, they're not wielding power over people they hate.
All of the conservative handwringing over "cancel culture" for the better part of the past decade was them wishing they could do all the canceling themselves.
He's seen that media companies that want to get their mergers approved have to suck up to the dictator first.
You're exactly right. Turns out Nexstar and Disney need FCC approval for something coming up.
I'm calling it now. They're going to find a group of guys to replace all these late night comedians. It's going to be some late night culty stuff. The indoctrination channels.
Oh shit do you think they'll add a Trump channel where it's just his face with the national anthem playing? And one with rewritten history about how Trump invented the hamburger?
We already have the Trump channel. Rupert Murdoch owns it.
But Trump only invented the hamberder. Pairs nicely with a vintage covfefe.
One wonders how much longer Seth Meyers has. Kimmel was always the last monologue I watched, after Meyers and Colbert. Those are cathartic ways of coping with just how crazy shit is getting, and now the folks screaming about being canceled are getting really efficient at actually canceling entertainment.
What the fuck is the endgame here? You can shut down the entire internet, and I'm still not going to buy into Nazi ideology. I fear we may end up in a violent situation.
The endgame is to leave only two kinds of people: supporters, and silent ones. Collaborators may be tolerated until they are no longer useful.
Meanwhile on Fox News...
Where do I get my free lethal injection as a homeless person? They're doing a piss-poor job of advertising locations, hours, etc.
Trump and his lackeys were quick to adopt cancel culture.
I didn't watch any of the monologues tonight. I'm waiting for what Colbert and Meyers have to say on the Thursday show, and I'd not be entirely surprised if those are their last episodes, contract be damned.
The good news is, these people aren't going anywhere. Having worked in media, being scorned is a Wet Paint sign. Network TV is dead anyway, so they'll lose a bit of income from those deep pockets, but it's on them if they didn't save up enough over their runs.
We also have prior art for collaboration from Strike Force Five (insert thunder sound here). This situation sucks, but it's possible a phoenix rises from this bullshit censorship.
Nexstar should be denied that merger. We'll see.