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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Bill who wrote (1559962)9/19/2025 3:36:10 PM
From: Tenchusatsu2 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 1583630
 
Just to be sure, Bill, Jake Tapper of CNN contradicts your narrative that the cancellation came from the bottom-up ...

Why was Jimmy Kimmel's show pulled? Jake Tapper says, 'follow the money' (CNN, YouTube short)

Tapper says that the FCC chair, Brendan Carr, went on the show of RuZZian propagandist Benny Johnson and called on local TV stations to drop Kimmel. That interview was posted on Wednesday at 1:01 PM.

Within hours, Nexstar announces that their stations will pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel.

The timing matters, Bill, because now you can't pretend that the FCC was merely reacting to actions that the local stations supposedly took on their own behalf. There was no sign that there'd be a mass pre-emption of Kimmel's show until the order came from up top.

(And just a reminder, Nexstar is trying to get FCC approval for a huge billion dollar merger, so of course they are going to bend the knee and kiss the ring. Anything to please the regulators.)

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