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.”
Keep. On. Boycotting.
They’re are just in PR damage control, they have not fired a single person or told Sinclair/Nextstar to fire those who actively voice support for fascism.
Sinclair is the one that needs to hurt at the moment since they refuse to run the show, let sponsors know you’re unhappy
Kimmel didn’t even talk about Kirk’s death outside of stating that the right is trying their best to milk it as much as possible which is saying nothing about Kirk. He never commented on Kirk as a person, at least not as far as I know of.
Came here to say this. Media’s framing language matters. He made a comment about Trump. His show was suspended under pressure from the FCC not because he made irresponsible comments about Kirk, but because he made the pissy man-baby cry.
It’s worse, he showed that taco don’t care about Kirk at all and just uses him for political goals.
Frankly, his behavior demonstrates that he wouldn’t have any hangups ordering the kill himself.
Exactly. This was a non-apology and Kimmel wasn’t the one who needed talking to, I hope he doesn’t tone down his monologues one iota.
Keep the boycott on.
Not an apology, an excuse. They can’t let the mob know they actually have power over them.
He actually put out a message before this saying that it was a horrible thing that happened and he and his family were sending their deepest sympathies to the Kirk family.
Kimmel didn’t make any “Charlie Kirk comments”
He made fun of Trump for not giving a shit about Kirk’s death because he couldn’t get over his 8 year old equivalent impulse control to start bragging about the monstrosity they built on top of the Rose Garden at the White House.
Holy shit, so much this!
It’s honestly wild how far that narrative that he made some edgy comments has gone, to the point where it’s just being taken as fact in headlines now.
He barely even mentioned Kirk, and just stated that MAGA is trying really hard to claim the shooter was not one of them–didn’t even make any assertions about the actual shooter or their motives.
Anyone claiming he made disrespectful or inflammatory comments about Kirk is ignorant or a hypocrite.
Too late, fuckers. Subscription is staying cancelled and I’m not coming back.
Jimmy Kimmel Live posts their monologue to YouTube every night, so you can still enjoy it.
Don’t forget your best friend uBlock Origin (or ReVanced or Tubular or whatever other YT ad blocker you like) when you watch, just to make sure they don’t even get ad revenue from you
Go fash, go crash.
Nice try, I will never return to paying for Disney+ though.
There’s not even an apology anywhere to be seen. Just a spineless attempt to have it all go away.
Likewise. I didn’t get around to watching the second Andor season yet but, oh well 🤷 🚢🏴☠️
Don yer eyepatch mehearty. Yarrrrr.
When TV’s tamest talkshow host gets his show banned, you know we’re in dystopian times.
So much for all the fascist right’s posturing on “free speech” lol
He might be tame but he leans liberal and that can’t be allowed because it hurts MAGA sensitive feelings. The lessons here is that MAGA positions immediately collapse under any sort of criticism or examination.
Never mind the hateful content Fox spews out 24/7.
Freedom warriors scared of a comedian.
They know the tremendous power of strong propaganda, they have been developing the Conservative Propaganda Machine for decades.
They see this Blue Line at 11:30 pm, following the local news, and they know that even MAGAs, who tuned away from Fox News for a half hour to hear what happened in town, might accidentally end up staying tuned in, and hearing Colbert and Kimmel making fun of him.
They are far more than just comedians, they are chipping away at the wall in the brains of MAGA citizens. Every night they expose him for the buffoon he is, and eventually he is going to do something that even their MAGA followers think is buffoonery, and an entire brick will fall out of the wall. Once that happens, steady pressure will eventually make it crumble.
The Conservative Propaganda Machine understands all of this, and more. They have data tracking behavioral responses going back decades, and they have ALWAYS been hostile to the late night talk shows. Rather than adjust their behavior to reflect the rest of society, and thus avoid humiliation for their poor decisions, they would rather kill the messenger.
They always are. Mel Brooks pointed that out years ago.
I kinda wish Kimmel had told them to get fucked and went somewhere else, or started his own podcast.
We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy
You mean conversations with your lawyers. I’m sure Kimmel was lawyering up for breach of contract.
Kimmel would have been okay, but by some estimates there are as many as 200 staff members out of their job, and he’d never be able to take all of them with him. As cathartic it would have been to see him levave Disney, staying was the best option for his team.
And making it even harder would’ve been the fact that he makes it well known a significant portion of the people working on his show are members of his family.
Meanwhile, over at CBS, a similar staff are all out of jobs.
I agree. “Yeah Disney, this is the consequence of your actions. Get fucked. Enjoy sucking Trump’s dick.” Would have been much better.
Well, now let’s see what Jimmy Kimmel does. Will he come back toning down his rhetoric or will he start by thoroughly criticizing Kirk and Disney right as he gets back. I don’t think there really is a third option. If he decide to not address this, he will always weigh the consequences of saying something before saying it (even subconsciously). And in that case, he is not worth watching.
I don’t think there really is a third option. If he decide to not address this
He could intentionally avoid mentioning it while an elephant slowly wanders around behind him.
You could write for the show.
To be fair, I stole the idea from Top Gear’s final show.
Blah blah we want your money blah blah.
Exactly
Fuck em, arrr
They can die. I only pirate content from them, will never pay a dime.
Let’s go ahead & start calling & boycotting all of NexStar and Sinclair’s advertisers since they decided they aren’t going to have Kimmel back.
https://www.distractify.com/p/how-to-boycott-sinclair-broadcast-group
“OK, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel,” he wrote on Facebook. “The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact? See if you have a Sinclair or Nexstar station in your area. 2. Watch the local newscast tonight or sometime this week. 3. Note the companies that bought TV adverts. 4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company.”
“Trust me. I worked in TV for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact. Nothing,” he continued. “This is a much more effective tool than cancelling Disney. We did cancel Disney but calling Joe’s Jeep dealership who is buying adds on the local Nexstar station will have a BIG impact. Joe doesn’t need that grief. He will find another station to buy adverts on.”
Also, they are fascists & deserve to be destroyed anyhow.
Money, that’s our only way of influence.
Yes, this really isn’t difficult, or shouldn’t be, but Americans are incredibly addicted to convenience. I’ve been saying for years now that we don’t even need a general strike of workers not working, people simply need to stop being good little consumers for a while, only buy the essentials when necessary, cancel all extraneous services, stop using the fascists’ platforms. In a consumer economy, consumers hold the cards, but unfortunately we’ve been trained well and think we cannot live without 37 different streaming services and food and whatever else you want delivered to your door, and then need to post about it all on TwitFaceAgram after a post about corporate 'Merica run amok.
A large enough percentage of the population buying only necessities local goods would get Trump ousted.
I’ve been doing this since the Inauguration.
Alternate headline: “Disney losing money, back pedaling”
That’s a bummer for them, Ive already canceled my account and ordered a nice NAS setup and Plex.
Plex bad. Jellyfin good.
Can it be used with FreeBSD?
It’s been a while since I meddled with FreeBSD. It shouldn’t be hard - it’s just a web stack with some command line ffmpeg. I think the only thing that might be a challenge is hardware encoding.
There are sweet docker images, but I guess they might require virtualization on FreeBSD.
You should be able to find instructions. I had it in a jail in my truenas before I went scale.
Where do you plan to source your media from now?
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This isn’t reddit, no one here is going to ban you for recommending a fucking website, just tell me what torrent site everyone is using so I can try and sign up with it during an open-season event and seed all day everyday
You know I’m generally helpful in guiding others to do things, sadly the way you responded to that comment I’ll have to take a pass. Why would you assume anything other than they’re going to pirate and haven’t gotten further than that yet.
Perhaps someone less petty can guide you or you can do what I did and figure it out using the internet.
That said I’ll give you two words to begin. Docker. Prowlarr.
I don’t care if you want to gatekeep your torrent sites for only people who conform to your specified kind of corporate nice-speak.
I refuse to allow a fucking billionaire, or an emotionally fragile person who doesn’t like reading naughty words on the internet to tell me how to talk.
I’m justifying my response to a useless emoji, because apparently down votes here are only a “I disagree” button rather than its intended purpose.
Man, some people will do anything rather than accept that their behavior can have justified social consequences.
We are on lemmy.world. No, we cannot directly link to websites here that are “actively facilitating copyright infringement”. See the TOS.
lemmy.dbzer0.com has plenty of boards that can help you get started, and there is one specifically for open signups. qBittorent + a VPN + Jackett as a qBittorrent search plugin will facilitate most needs - you don’t need to be a member of private trackers to get most media.
Flying the pirate flag made perfect sense as a response. People are not going to bend over and spam links even if it were allowed; you didn’t specifically ask for help - don’t expect it.
Fuck off pal. I can tell you if you spoke to me like this in person you get a smack in the face.
Basic civility isn’t corporate nice speak you silly cunt.
I’m asking genuinely - are you doing alright? I can’t promise I can be helpful, but if you need someone to talk to I would be willing to try.
Every instance have their own ToS, each of them with their own threshold of tolerance with having to deal with potential piracy inquiry on their server.
I have no idea what you’re talking about, we all pay full price.
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oh i bet you’re fun at parties. 🙄
Trying to rewrite history huh - they suspended the show because Kimmel criticised Trump, and the FCC threatened ABC/DIsney. Never forget.
I wrote a very angry letter, letting them know that I was switching my news source, cancelling Hulu, and in the future, I would pirate their content, and watch it without commercials.
That’s three revenue-sucking situations that every network hates, and it worked, they caved.
I also told them that I expect them to hold the line on free speech, and if Trump threatens to remove their FCC license, dare him to do it. That FCC license gives them a responsibility to this nation. Folding like they tried to do is unacceptable.
So you saved jimmy’s show?
I believe the implication was that a significant amount of other people also did this.
No, thats fairm i was needlessly pointing out how it seemed like they were taking credit for the whole thing. It was supposed to be a joke but looking back, it wasn’t very funny.
Yep, single-handedly.
No, of course not. But ALL corporations understand that one person that takes the time to write a coherent, logical letter, and doesn’t threaten sexual violence against their daughters and elderly relatives, represent, and are speaking for, a very large number of people who are just sitting at home, pissed off and talking to their families.
Get enough of those letters, and the data analysis people in Marketing start getting extremely nervous. That’s what happened here. In fact, the walls crumbled so quickly, that they must have received an overwhelming amount of angry communications.
Also like why does the FCC license even matter anymore? For the three people left still watching ABC over the air?
