Sorry, Brendan Carr: Sinclair and Nexstar stop preempting Kimmel on ABC affiliates.

Conservative broadcaster Sinclair is putting Jimmy Kimmel Live! back on the air. In a statement today, Sinclair said it will end its preemption of the show on its ABC affiliates starting tonight, even though ABC and owner Disney haven’t accepted its request for an ombudsman and other changes.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1019·
    16 hours ago

    Incredible that folks were able to muster this much outage over Jimmy Kimmel.

    A shame they can’t manage it for Gaza.

    • mhague@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 hours ago

      Gaza? The thing that has been happening for decades? The thing the world doesn’t care about?

      Or Gaza©, the brand new thing that is super important and which needs to be solved by the next Democrat or else we might as well not vote?

      I’ve been alive for awhile so I know there’s at least two “Israel - Palestine” concepts people talk about.

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
      7·
      7 hours ago

      People can’t even give a shit while their own country is going down the drain and you expect them to care about war in a far off land they have no direct connection to

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        4 hours ago

        People can’t even give a shit while their own country is going down the drain

        Plenty of people give a shit. They just can’t agree on why we’re floundering.

        Hell, look at the tens of thousands of people lining up to join ICE. These people clearly give a shit enough to join the modern Americanized SS. Then you’ve got evangelical churches packed with bloodthirsty Christians, looking for reprisal over the Kirk shooting. And Tech CEOs trying to… idfk, digitally create God?

        People are clearly caring. It’s just that the ones in charge are batshit insane.

    • BanMe@lemmy.world
      52·
      7 hours ago

      Hey, Democrats split their vote over Gaza in the last election, we sure as hell can muster enough outrage to get Trump elected.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        Democrats split their vote over Gaza in the last election

        Did they? The anti-Biden Gaza protest votes in the primary were minuscule relative to the overall turnout in the General. And there were a number of states that split between Trump and a Democrat for Governor or Senate, in large part because Trump - personally - outpolled the field while Kamala under-performed the rest of her party.

        Even then, Kamala got 10M more votes than Hillary did eight years earlier. 6M more than the Obama landslide of 2008.

        There’s a lot of folks who want to die on the “Democrat Low Turnout” hill. But 2024 had an unusually high turnout, compared to the historical average. The problem Dems faced was Trump being too popular.

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
      73·
      15 hours ago

      Thanks to the outrage over Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver yesterday was able to broadcast a 40 minutes rant against Netanyahu and its genocidal actions calling him “this fucking guy”. Unbelievable on American TV

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        8 hours ago

        I guess.

        But Oliver’s been doing the “Foreign Man Bad” skit for his whole career. And as Israel’s sin eater, I don’t think Netanyahu or his proxies even care. “Liberals don’t like me, so I must be doing a good job” is half his pitch to the Likkudnik base

        South Park also did a Netanyahu Bad episode. Seems like most people slept through it.

        Let me know when any of these guys start talking about Regime Change.

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
      37·
      16 hours ago

      Apples and Oranges; all people had to do was cancel subscriptions (plus Jimmy was well liked in the industry). Clear target, low risk, no effort. Hell, if it was just Sinclair, people would have no idea which channels were theirs and have a harder time boycotting.

      Gaza is a lot less clear… I mean, anywhere from direct action and volunteering, to… not voting in 2024? That message is only now breaking through to (some) governments. And Palestine doesn’t really have powerful allies and have been tormented for decades, so it’s good that at least some people now want to do something just for the injustice of it all. Hell, now we even have the added risk of getting fired! (Edit: or fucking arrested if you’re in UK, oof).