I hope it cost them a few percent revenue at least. I’m not resubscribing any time soon.
But yes, apparently everyone hates Disney and wants them to go bankrupt. So finally the left and right agree on one thing.
Unfortunately for Kimmel, late night TV is irrelevant dinosaur so he better extract as much money as he can before he inevitably ends up like Colbert.
This FCC action was censorship, not cancel culture.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/disney-says-j...
From today's statement: "Last Wednesday, we [Disney] made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country" [1].
[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5550330/jimmy-kimmel-ba...
When Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr suggested Jimmy Kimmel should be suspended and said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” ABC and its local affiliates were listening.
On Wednesday afternoon, Carr tapped into preexisting MAGA media anger about a Monday night Kimmel monologue and used a right-wing podcaster’s platform to blast Kimmel and pressure ABC’s parent company Disney.
There have been market panics ended by the right words at the right time. It's a different kind of speech entirely from criticism of the government by those without direct political power.
If we exclude the people advocating violence and discrimination against others due to their immutable characteristics, we find that its not such a "long" list after all.
The list I keep seeing from people on the right is Rosanne Barr and Tim Allen... who were "cancelled" in 2018 and 2017 respectively.
My memory is bad, so.. who was the wokie leftist President in office in 2017 and 2018 again?
These are two completely different situations. If conservatives want to vote with their dollars and boycott Disney, that’s something I wholeheartedly support. If they want to use their power as federal officials to silence voices they disagree with, that’s unacceptable.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ted-cruz-fcc-brend...
The left is not a single voice. A few dangerous voices cheered assasinations while many decried it for what it was.
I disagree. Trump, IMO, has been a cult-like leader for the GOP since 2016. And he even called for more networks to lose their licenses over "dishonesty" after this incident[0]. Not to mention the multitude of scandals that we've seen like: law firm security clearance revocation as retribution for supporting Trump's opponents, deporting legal residents over their protest against Israel, and various lawsuits he's engaged in as President against media corporations, pollsters, etc.. who disfavour him[1].
> Many voices did not cheer it but called it for what it was
"many" is Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz? To my knowledge, they haven't called out Trump specifically for attacks on the First Amendment, only Brendan Carr. That's fine and dandy, but no one on the right seems willing to take the plunge for some reason on the huge array of issues that cropped up before this FCC threat against ABC.
0: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5514110-trump-ne...
1: https://www.ibanet.org/Trumps-assault-on-the-First-Amendment
Don't care.
We've got two groups of people in this country: those willing to sacrifice our republic for personal enrichment and those who won't bend the knee. (The former need to be heavily investigated over the coming decade, mostly so we can write statute that makes their behaviour criminal in the future.)
Do you care about the normal people working at ABC who would lose their jobs if ABC loses its license?
If everyone justifies acting like a capitalist monster, so then they can use their gains to do good things...
... but as soon as they retire they're replaced by someone else also doing EA...
... then the end result is the entire economy controlled by monsters, always. (Plus a bunch of wealthy retirees playing charity)
It's one thing to say "We're going to comply for now, but here are the things we'll be doing to push back..."
Attempting to can Kimmel because he said something the President doesn't like and because it's politically/economically convenient for Disney, without doing anything else?
That's just cowardice.
Disney content, financially motivated or not, is some of the most left friendly media there is.
Even failing to speak up clearly _against_ ”censorship recommendation” is bad neigh that the business should frankly be cancelled to bankruptcy - including parks, cruises and the rest of it.
I can’t. And I can’t vote. I can not buy a Tesla and cancel Disney but that’s it.
UBI isn't easily adapted into children's programming.
This is kind of true, but it isn't correct to color this as Disney doing a favor to the left. The reason their content is "left" friendly is that most people are pretty aligned with the "left" when it comes to social issues.
They are offering this content because it is popular with the majority of people (and thus profitable), not as some sort of favor to their friends.