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Front page of the Chicago Tribune... Jim Edgar (RIP) aside, just a firehose of catastrophe

Their demands to Jimmy Kimmel look a lot more toothless after this. Generally wonder what changed

He posts these lies yet repeatedly ignores every single time it is pointed out that the FCC Chairman clearly used the power of the state to repress speech that the administration doesn't like. And people wonder why it's pointless to engage

That's incredible

Do think you indirectly get at the idea that these actions may be more effective at diminishing the value of legacy media even moreso over anything else.

Yep, goes back to the point that keeps being made (and ignored) by a different poster: none of this happens without the weight of the federal government pushing to stifle speech

The Cardinal should repent.

Ted spends more time podcasting than legislating at this point... He understands the precedent being set.

Wow

This is getting really close to idolatry at this point...

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jimmy-kimmel-out-abc-charlie-kirk-comments-1235430078/ Earlier on Wednesday, Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, publicly called on licensed broadcasters to stop airing Kimmel’s show. “I think that it’s really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney and say, ‘Listen, we are going to preempt, we are not going to run Kimmel anymore, until you straighten this out because we, we licensed broadcaster, are running the possibility of fines or license revocation from the FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion,’” Carr said Wednesday, speaking with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr added. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” Care to address this? The FCC Chairman's comments are the *entire* reason this situation happened. There are no emergency meetings, no phone calls, etc. without Carr's comments.

As has been discussed previously, actually firing him probably opens up a viable 1A lawsuit as well (given the FCC's statements on the matter)

Still think if the administration goes down the path they are on (at least the one set forth by the President) that they will lose leverage.... you can't just take large chunks of ABC's viewing audience away without the public noticing. The bigger question remains whether Disney wants the headache of even owning ABC, and dealing with the news division, going forward. They really don't need it.

Beyond that, you saw the administration go *beyond* Kimmel today in their statements - you saw Carr going after "The View" and Trump saying that stations that criticize him should be harassed or have their licenses pulled. If you start going after shows that normal people watch (I'd consider Kimmel one of those, but The View is another demographic), that is going to raise negative backlash as well. And impact ratings. It's not an endless well of leverage that the administration has here. And ABC is owned by Disney, who absolutely could go toe-to-toe with them if they really wanted to (particularly given that they own ESPN).

The bigger question is whether ABC caves....

It doesn't get said enough, but his personal vendettas make this country less safe.

Care to respond? Was your concern over cancel culture ever genuine, or did you stop caring once ya boy became POTUS?

Considering how many people in the conservative movement were fundraising off his death within the first 48 hours, is it really surprising? The whole enterprise is a grift.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jimmy-kimmel-out-abc-charlie-kirk-comments-1235430078/ Earlier on Wednesday, Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, publicly called on licensed broadcasters to stop airing Kimmel’s show. “I think that it’s really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney and say, ‘Listen, we are going to preempt, we are not going to run Kimmel anymore, until you straighten this out because we, we licensed broadcaster, are running the possibility of fines or license revocation from the FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion,’” Carr said Wednesday, speaking with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr added. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” Sounds like he was taken off air because the state wanted him to be pulled off air.

When fourth grade arguments like this about how all of us should give up our liberties as a tribute to Kirk's death are being made, what do you expect?

I am fairly familiar with how Bill Mahar lost his show on ABC.... the advertisers pulled out, the FCC was a complete non-factor. Disagreed with it at the time, just a different situation.

Melissa Hortman was shot and assassinated *this year* by a full on MAGA type and I cannot recall seeing a single bit of self reflection from any MAGA figures afterward. Not one. And certainly not from Archie or Tigeraholic. It's hard for me to work up much sympathy for someone stepping into the political arena such as Kirk's widow considering this asymmetry.

Or the transgendered persons that Tigeraholic constantly dehumanizes in his posts on this board

"Maybe she can get snuffed next." Please explain to me how this isn't a trolling statement. The statement speaks for itself