I would have loved to have been in the boardrooms of Sinclair Media and Nexstar when a large stockholder

[LiberalArkie]

just remarked "Do you realize how childish this blackout of Kimmel is?"

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Indeed. Seems to have been an especially large egg thrown on their faces

CYA and backpedaling were the main ingredients of the resulting press release. Almost came close to saying free speech wasn't such a bad thing.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. IMHO, I don't care how Sinclair Media and Nexstar try to spin this, they royally screwed the pooch on this one

and anyone with 1/2 a brain knows this, they didn't just get egg on their faces, they got the whole dozen of eggs on their faces.

[MLAA]

3. Along with the actual chicken.

[COL Mustard]

14. I think they

Choked that chicken!

[W_HAMILTON]

10. And have been yet another big media player to show they are full-blown MAGA.

I'm sure most of us around here knew about Sinclair, but to the vast majority of Americans that are not nearly as politically informed, they would be watching the rightwing-biased crap that these stations pump out and not know that they were watching outright propaganda. That's why so many Americans have a completely warped view of what has been going on. They are only now waking up to it because the terribleness that we predicted with this administration is impacting their daily lives, and propaganda isn't nearly as powerful when you have real world experience that disputes it...

People should remember this the next time they are quick to blame Democrats for not being better messengers. The vast majority of outlets that Democrats have to rely on to get their message out have shown to be either (1) dominated by fascist friendly allies of Trump or (2) so afraid that the fascist's wrath will turn on them that their actions end up being no different than those in the first category.

[griloco]

4. It's one of those Unwoke situations where --

-- one can bet the over/under on how long it takes someone in the hierarchy to wake to reality.

[Amaryllis]

5. Did someone actually say that or were you being sarcastic? So hard to tell the difference these days.

[quaint]

6. AI told me it was probably said online -- after explaining grammar to me.

[sop]

7. I'm wondering how many MAGA Trumpers actually watch Jimmy Kimmel?

[LiberalArkie]

8. Probably not many, but I would imagine the income from local Humana medicare advantage ads are a lot less

than the station income from the network ads.

[nuxvomica]

9. I'm thinking it's gotta hurt the NewsNation brand

That's Nexstar's flagship cable channel that tries to sell itself as a totally unbiased national news network but its had issues in the past with management imposing right-wing bias so Kimmel is just more of the same. It's too bad because NewsNation used to be a powerhouse cable network called WGN and they've sunk pretty far under bad management.

[thebigidea]

11. it was probably more like Iger making a comment about their contracts and access to NFL games

[Dem4life1970]

12. All of these "conservatives" supposedly..

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... understand the free market better than us socialist, Marxist, Communist, Democrats. 😂 Yet time and time again they forget to listen to the market. Isn't it ironic that Republican presidents create economic crashes, depressions, and financial meltdowns. Then Democratic presidents clean it up creating booming economies, millions of jobs, and make life better for the average American. Rinse. Repeat.

[LiberalArkie]

13. I believe that they tend to forget that when they find a person to bribe to get a benefit for themselves or their

company that allows them to gain benefit over their competitors that another competitor or politician can do the same to the.them.