Colbert was the canary in the gold mine and canary #2 just dropped
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All the mainstream media organizations have effectively capitulated to fascism, at this point. They can and should be fighting this from a 1st amendment standpoint. The only reason they aren't, is because this is what they stand for.
The first amendment doesn't protect them from their advertisers. Unilever and coke don't want their names attached to anything that pisses off 1/3rd of the country. Its the same reason YouTube is so sanitized now.
This was apparently the FCC chair, threatening them with retribution. That is illegal.
Can we please stop pretending anyone who matters gives a single shit about the law?
Did abc say that? If so, you're right, and this ought to be interesting
ABC didn't have to. The FCC chair said it publicly, on a right-wing podcast. Then, suddenly...ABC cancels him.
Seems like the real issue is the conglomerate that owns the affiliates
The stunning dropping of Kimmel comes mere minutes after Nexstar axed his late night show on the 32 ABC affiliates it owns out of a total of 200 stations throughout the nation.
And, of course, Nexstar has an acquisition currently pending which needs FCC approval
https://apnews.com/article/nexstar-tegna-newsnation-cw-trump-c1743d55103a809ea31c5c7c7c4c0c87
I wonder how much $TRUMP the CEO of Nextstar owns....
Then be pissier and louder.
Unilever and coke don't want their names attached to anything that pisses off 1/3rd of the country.
Hmmm, but which third is it that they don't want to piss off? Because they only seem to care about the alt-reich third of the country.
I highly recommend reading (even just skimming) Manufacturing Consent for an overview about how mass media systematically self-censors. @the_crotch@sh.itjust.works already mentioned advertising, one of those five major filters.
It's important to understand that this effect doesn't require any conspiracy.
title should call out Disney-ABC, not just ABC. It's important to connect the dots how few outlets there are and how they are aligned. Christofacist will not be any stretch for Disney, and they have a king background in war propaganda films.
Fuck every one of these network stations. Why do they even still exist?
This will be there end. They'd rather have fascism than stay in business. Same as the Democrats would rather support Israel raping people instead of stopping fascism. But not us. Fuck them and fuck this.
I hope but look at all the corporations that just got bigger after Hitler
It’s not even about Kirk. It’s about calling out Trump for being full of shit. Trump got asked about grieving Kirk, said he was fine then began talking about trucks starting construction.
The key part to note is that the cancellation of the show did not need to be mandated by the state because the state represents the interests of the ruling class which is the capital owning class. The capitalists who own the network made a political decision to cancel him.
As an outsider, it's utterly astonishing how fucked up your country has become in only 9 short months.
it was fucked up long before that. Everyobody is scared and shooting each other, everybody is broke buying pointless shit.
It's always been like this, but it had a mask before trump that made everything happen slow enough to make people doubt that it was happening, so that it all can eventually seem acceptable; trump doesn't care about the mask and has accelerated it to a noticeable speed before everyone is ready to accept it.
Liberals laid the groundwork for years to prepare for Fascism with the police state and illegal wars. All Trump had to do was pull the lever.
I didn't think the USA would be stiffling free speech consideri this is the fredom they try to export all over the world.
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