Jimmy Kimmel's show to return to air after suspension over Charlie Kirk comments, says Disney
Jimmy Kimmel's show to return to air after suspension over Charlie Kirk comments, says Disney
Jimmy Kimmel updates: Show returns after suspension over Charlie Kirk comments
Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday after his show was suspended following comments he made about the death of Charlie Kirk, Disney has said in a statement released in the last few moments.
"Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country," the statement says.
"It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."
Capitalists are incapable of thinking beyond the end of the current quarter
Is this even thinking in this quarter? It just feels like a mistake.
Edit:to be clear the suspension feels like a mistake.
Goodhart's Law in action
I think they thought they could get away with it, like when they fired Colbert. Maybe Colbert worked because it was a year away?
In case anyone hasn't seen this, I'm posting it again. Here is what Kimmel did that was so wrong. He showed trump completely not care about kirk's death.
Starts at about 2 minutes.
Video of monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk
Colbert was given most of a season to carry on and all involved had a long time to figure out options, and there weren't explicit overt threats from government. "How bad could it be if they are letting him keep saying everything he wants for months?". Also people looking to to throw money at South Park which was been gloves off against Trump.
Kimmel was sudden and with direct specific threats from the government during such a contentuous time.
Target did the same thing. They pissed off both sides and have been hurting for quite a while now.
I am out of the loop (by which I mean hi from Europe), what did target do?
Disney could have just looked at Target as an example of exactly why they shouldn't have done this.
That's exactly what happened to Bud Light. Bigots hated that BL was partnering with a filthy trans person, and when they caved to the pressure everyone else said "fuck you" but the bigots didn't all come back. It's kind of like Target as well. Present this image of being for the minorities, and then caving under the smallest amount of pressure pissing off everyone.
It's definitely opportunistic backpedalling, but it's a good sign of sorts: We've proven that, if we can punish them financially, they'll do the right thing. For the wrong reasons, obviously, but in these times, I'll take what we can get.
They think all the people will return. I'm planning to not resume the service unless Iger and the board of directors changes.
FCC threatened to take their licence. They'll force Kimmel to say "we don't know if he was maga" or something and everything continues on eggshells.
The FCC doesn't license network afaik, they license stations (eg nexstar) which pressured the network.
We have no values except for that which we think in the moment will make us the most money, and we hope the customers agree
They were thinking of all of the dollars they just got from the centrists who renewed their subscriptions because victory fascism defeated! But im probably being too cynical about it