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The mic flags are staging a work stoppage in the main studio.

Glad they’re giving people something to obsess over.

Whether or not it’s some artificial “gold standard,” there is so much more to life.

If only there were a multitude of media sources on which conservative (or what masquerades as conservative here in 2025) figures and viewpoints were available unchallenged, and without any tether to reality, around the clock.

If it works for her, good for her.

At what point do you think that will ever happen that the administration will do that? The answer is never. Want to cancel? Great. Have at it. The government wins either way.

Sinclair is secondary here. The issue is the FCC threats. Proverbially “growing a backbone” over Sinclair et al simply further increases the likelihood of the US government putting its full weight behind those threats.

It isn’t. Political slants aside for just a moment, it’s a challenging situation. As audiences fragment, and ad dollars follow, maintaining a viable news operation with ever-less money available, particularly in smaller and middle size markets can be challenging or outright impossible. And people howl at any cost cutting measures when they themselves are not the ones faced with the budget reality. Just look at the steady drumbeat of criticisms in thread upon thread here. The sky is falling because some organization centralized a function, or standardized graphics. They outsourced some type of content or dialed back in some other way. They don’t upgrade their set enough. They didn’t do it right when they actually do. The harsh reality is there isn’t an ability to support the quantity and quality of news operations. There’s a fine argument that one company owning too many stations in a market is a problem, but that isn’t going to magically make money appear such that another owner will be able to be profitable running a news operation. That world isn’t coming back.

He is not a journalist. He stated an opinion as is his prerogative. And there is a great deal we do not know about this highly suspect case. But that is neither here nor there. The FCC making threats over content is the issue.

This. The rules apply to thee, not to me. Except that Kimmel’s statement actually has more to back it up at the time. Heck, it still does. Now, let’s be honest amongst ourselves. What he said was not about the victim. It was about the accused, alleged perpetrator. And those who were and are in mourning were not likely to be Kimmel viewers. It defies logic to assume that generally benign statement of opinion was reaching a large swath of the victim’s followers.

I am.

He’s exactly right.

Except that “the left” didn’t have government agencies use Sopranos-level extortion (we can do this the easy way or the hard way). The boycotts from all sides get to be a bit confusing to track, but that’s basic freedom at work. Don’t want to buy/watch/patronize whoever, great. This is a whole different level.

But they are. This has been building for a long, long time. And those who saw it coming were dismissed as overreacting. It’s not just one party controlling every aspect of the government, it’s one philosophy. The governing party has largely been purged of any dissenting voices. Where once there was a diversity of views on many topics, all you have now is a couple of outliers on one or two issues who ultimately make no meaningful difference. It’s performative at most.

Not the revival of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (I kid.)

Temporarily air reruns as an immediate stopgap? Good Night America? (No, I’m not serious.) Shark Tank After Dark?

Fascism isn’t coming. It’s here. Never mind the irony that the person being mourned as a victim of an absolutely heinous crime is memorialized as being a champion of free speech. Kimmel’s comments apparently don’t count.

The dresses look great.

Maybe they can put the full open back on weekend mornings.

Wait…it’s ok if in the judgement of a given individual the programming is of no value? If the programming was “high value,” then what?

What’s amazing is the likes of Scott Jennings and pretty much the entirety of the Fox News primetime lineup indulge in wild speculation daily, but one commentator over at another building is booted for pointing out that someone factually trafficked in heated, inflammatory rhetoric as his entire public persona.

Divisive is perhaps the most mild way he could have phrased it. What is the magic time we can state with clarity the truth of a situation? The bigger issue is the abject failure to adequately cover yet another school shooting. That is the epidemic in the country. Innocent kids being shot day after day after day in classrooms from coast to coast. The kids deserve far more of our attention, but our collective priorities are warped.

It won't. They'll just keep reciting the talking points regardless of actual questions until time expires.

Yeah that was it. Short sweet and to the point. No middle of the vampire hours big festivities.

IIRC, KYW came out of SNL and basically the top of the hour was akin to "Oh yeah. We're now CBS." Of course they did more at other times, when people other than those who hung out until the end of SNL were watching, but it was an amusing contrast to the amusingly over-the-top 1 am infomercial/"newscast" over at NBC 10. Respect to both orgs, they made what they were given work to the best of their abilities.