Media Meltdown and also Media Bias 101

[romad1]

hmmm

[Hongbit]

How in the world have Matt & Trey not only been able to keep South Park on the air but also sign a $1.5B deal with Paramount just days prior to them getting government approval for their massive merger. 

[mtutiger]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

Nextstar wants a purchase to go through.  They need FCC approval. They see the FCC chairman doesn't like Kimmel.  They band together and take Kimmel off their ABC affiliates over a trumped up charge.  That gives them negligible, but non zero amount, of cover that it was some kind of "business decision".  Because of that then ABC can claim that same non zero amount of cover to take him off "indefinitely" as a business decision because enough people were mad at Kimmel, for whatever reason.  

 

 

I don't think it gives them any cover.... hence why this has become a much larger deal than Colbert ever was.

[ewsieg]

15 hours ago, mtutiger said:

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.”

I'm sorry, but this is happening because he the state compelled this action. Pretty easy story to tell

It is clear what he did here.  He didn't want to be the one to rule on this as it would look like government overreach.  But it's crystal clear he's calling for anyone that needs a friendly relationship with the FCC, like maybe a couple of large companies that want to merge, to take action, which they have the right to do.  

It's a shakedown, nothing more, nothing less.

[Sports_Freak]

Have the producers of Dancing With the Stars been told to only vote for the dancers who the Orange Cheeto approves of?

[antrat]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

I'm sad that the company that puts out Andor is involved in this crap. 

Post by @sarahposner.bsky.social — Bluesky

 

Andor was soooo good!

[oblong]

34 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

I don't think it gives them any cover.... hence why this has become a much larger deal than Colbert ever was.

when I saw cover, I"m talking about a very small, symbolic even.... their press release made reference to "community".  So like if they think their customers are unhappy then hey... they have no choice but to respond.  I don't buy it at all.  BUt it's there, on paper.  It's worthless though.  Anybody who falls for it is.... what words should I use?   A dumb ****?

[CMRivdogs]

Hopefully the Resistance can hold out to then. I'm not really positive

[mtutiger]

Cannot wait to see what the President hand selects for all of us to be entertained with

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, oblong said:

Nextstar wants a purchase to go through.  They need FCC approval. They see the FCC chairman doesn't like Kimmel.  They band together and take Kimmel off their ABC affiliates over a trumped up charge.  That gives them negligible, but non zero amount, of cover that it was some kind of "business decision".  Because of that then ABC can claim that same non zero amount of cover to take him off "indefinitely" as a business decision because enough people were mad at Kimmel, for whatever reason.  

 

 

Honestly, I think the idea of Nexstar removing Kimmel from their affiliates to court government approval of their purchase is just as bad on its face as them removing Kimmel from their affiliates because the government explicitly demanded them to.

[chasfh]

45 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Hopefully the Resistance can hold out to then. I'm not really positive

What are the chances Swalwell gets hammered for making verbal threats against administration officials?

[mtutiger]

You know the regime screwed up when they have Bari Weiss disagreeing with them lol

[ben9753]

Give her a week or so. She'll come around.

[pfife]

Who woulda thought that big tough trump would be the snowflakiest president ever.   

Lolic and archief brag about voting for that pedo beta ****

Edited 4 hours ago by pfife

[chasfh]

43 minutes ago, ben9753 said:

Give her a week or so. She'll come around.

We don't have to wait for her to come around. She showed in this very tweet she's on the regime's side concerning Jimmy Kimmel. She's just preemptively trying to protect herself and her own media empire here.

[mtutiger]

20 minutes ago, chasfh said:

We don't have to wait for her to come around. She showed in this very tweet she's on the regime's side concerning Jimmy Kimmel. She's just preemptively trying to protect herself and her own media empire here.

Exactly - she shows contempt for Kimmel, but knows how it looks to the broader public.

[CMRivdogs]

I hope the Macron's take her for everything she owns. Forces her to live in a van down by the Potomac River

[LaceyLou]

18 hours ago, Deleterious said:

 

A 'meaningful' donation to TPUSA????  I guess I would continue to be suspended, because that organization is pretty much in direct opposition to what I believe. 

[Tigermojo]

8 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

A 'meaningful' donation to TPUSA????  I guess I would continue to be suspended, because that organization is pretty much in direct opposition to what I believe. 

How about a donation in a flaming brown paper bag?

[chasfh]

21 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

I hope the Macron's take her for everything she owns. Forces her to live in a van down by the Potomac River

The Macrons had better win, or else it's merely the Birth Certificate Fiasco all over again.

Edited 2 hours ago by chasfh

[gehringer_2]

59 minutes ago, chasfh said:

The Macrons had better win, or else it's merely the Birth Certificate Fiasco all over again.

I don't think it matters - in the US SCOTUS has made it virtually impossible for any 'public' figure to win against this kind of crap, and that despite the fact that the internet has made any traditional definition of 'public figure' completely obsolete. The other half of the state of US law (the other being CU) that has really put political discourse in the US in the toilet. Almost no guardrails can be enforced at all. This decision originally brought to you by a supposedly 'liberal leaning' court, which only goes to prove that both sides can reason without any vision of the consequences.

Edited 1 hour ago by gehringer_2

[LaceyLou]

1 hour ago, Tigermojo said:

How about a donation in a flaming brown paper bag?

Tempting.... although I'd rather donate something that's truly meaningful to an organization I actually care about.

[mtutiger]

 

[mtutiger]

So much for the "he pissed off the bosses" spin lol