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Disney cancelled Jimmy Kimmel.
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Done!
Also, for those who can afford it, consider redirecting that money to PBS or NPR, as Trump cut their funding earlier this year.
Excellent suggestions, Kara. Thank you!
This is at a tangent to the post. On the much-vexed subject of Charlie Kirk, see here.
In my view, an open-eyed take on the situation that recognizes the same things your comment did.
Thank you, Myra.
Excellent.
This sums up the nonsense:
There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
I’m a streamer and don’t have a Disney account but I’d certainly ditch if if I did. I know many people who have.
I see no reason why major corporations and wealthy CEOs should capitulate to a neofascist cult leader and endanger the 1st Amendment rights of freedom of expression that are integral to our system of government.
For a second, I thought you meant the OTHER just do it!
Did you watch the last Daily Show episode? The intro was fantastic!
As a retired journalist I have long given these media conglomerates the stink eye. I’ve never had streaming services beyond Netflix, Paramount+ and Prime Video. The Prime Video and Amazon accounts were deleted when Bezos bent the knee and bought another yacht. I had access to the BF’s Disney+, after a short conversation he voluntarily deleted it. Now to get him off Facebook. My Paramount account stays on standby until new Star Trek airs. I don’t have cable either. I retired early because so many corporations were buying up newspapers to drain them dry. Pre-internet they made substantial profits, even in small towns. Most of them were proud to support and inform their communities. That’s where I grew up, dad’s small town newspaper. Ink runs in my veins still. I can still smell the print shop/newsroom 33 years later Seeing the Fourth Estate bow down still makes me gag. Small actions make big differences. It’s up to us.
I find I am watching less and less U.S. Corporate television.
I do pay for Passport for PBS.
I have Prime Video basically because it is part of Prime and I do rely on it as I don’t get around as well as I did and I cannot spend the day driving from store to store looking for the right size screw.
I had my choice of NetFlix of HBO and I chose HBO.
I am also subscribed to BritBox and AcornTV because I really enjoy British television, plus they have Canada and Australia too.
I cut the cable right after I retired. I haven’t had the over the air antennas installed yet but I have bought them and have all of the equipment. Perhaps I will get them installed in the next year. That way I can watch the local stations better, although I am a bit spoiled by YouTube as I am not tied to the TV, day and time, but can watch selectively what I want when I want. YouTube has Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue and Meanwhile or Rescue Dog Rescue so I don’t need to stay up late or subscribe to a streaming platform.
I’ve always hated the Disney corporation and this isn’t helping. Really glad they’re getting hit where it hurts for them.
This headline will make you happy, Alice. It makes me happy:
Hulu/Disney+ Page Crashes In Surge Of Cancellations
The only language these huge companies understand is money. So you have to use money to convey your message. They only way to get their attention enough to make them change is to either make them pay BIGLY through litigation or to withhold paying them at all, in the form of boycotts. Don’t buy their stuff. That is why Disney is shitting kittens over the billion$ of dollar$ they are losing in canceled subscriptions, canceled trips to their theme parks and on their cruises, lost revenue from merchandise that isn’t selling and right before the Christmas season and people not paying for their streaming services.
There stock took a deep dive when it was already on the decline. All this lost revenue isn’t going to help when that quarterly report to investors is released. Disney isn’t too big to fail. Too big to fail no longer exists.
People cancelling their subscriptions has gotten their attention. CBS didn’t feel the pain that much so they are basically letting Colbert do whatever he wants and not renew his contract in May.
Disney/ABC chose poorly. They chose their merger over their audience. The audience that pays the bills. Yes, we do. If we didn’t buy the products their advertisers paid to have promoted their advertisers wouldn’t pay ABC to air their commercials. With streaming, we pay for what we could watch over the air for free, unless it’s on cable, which we also pay for. You could buy a car with what some families pay to take everyone on a trip to Disneyland for a few days.
Well, surprise. People have realized that with inflation and tariffs maybe that $100+ a month could go for groceries instead of supporting a Fascist collaborator.
Not sure if anyone has seen it on YouTube but several pundits are making the case very clearly that this is a camel’s nose problem, that giving the bully your lunch money doesn’t make him go away, he comes back again and this time demands more.
FDJT is a bully, we all know that. And every time he gets his way he learns that he can do it again only more so.
The first law firm settled for a few hundred thousand in pro bono work. The next more until the price tag for please don’t hurt me was in the millions. Then he turned to the colleges and did the same thing until he got some push back. Then he turned elsewhere. Now it is networks and late night comics. And he clearly said exactly what he was going to do. After CBS caved he said he would come after Colbert. And when Colbert was effectively a dead comic talking he then said that Kimmel would be next. His Cruel Eulogy (if you can call that campaign regurgitation of hate speech at Charlie Kirk’s funeral a eulogy) repeated the LIE that it was something Kimmel said about Kirk. It wasn’t and he didn’t. It was the mocking of President Pedophile. And in his gloating of taking down Kimmel what did he say? NBC was next and Fallon and Myers would be gone. I don’t know what merger NBC has in mind but we all know that CBS was extorted over their Skydance sale and ABC was extorted over Nexstar’s merger.
None of these cases would hold up in court but that didn’t matter. The spineless, feckless, GREEDY corporations did what they always do. They threw money at the problem to make it go away.*
In doing so they make the Convicted Felon even more bold and insatiable. Every time one of them caves he learns he can do it again, it will be easier and he’ll get MORE.
First it’s Due Process. Then it’s the First Amendment. It will be elections next.
That Versailles Vomitorium of a Ballroom he is building without permission? No one is stopping him with lawsuits. He’s building it because he’s never planning to leave. The White House BELONGS to him and he’ll do whatever he wants. Chop down trees. Pave over everything. Tear down the most famous historic building in the United States, the symbol of our government, and slap some gold paint all over it. He won’t stop until it is The Trump House instead of the White House. And you’ll pay through the nose for tours, even more than a one day admission at Disneyland.
* Does anyone remember when there was a big recall of Firestone Tires and lawsuits? Firestone knew there was a problem with their tires but they did a cost analysis and decided it was cheaper to pay off the lawsuits than it was to recall all of the tires. THAT is how corporate America thinks. It wasn’t until it was exposed and the government stepped in they were forced to recall them. If only the sundowning lunatic was president then they wouldn’t have had to pay a penny. Probably gotten a government contract on top to boot.