Reciprocity, Reconciliation, Retribution
Legacy Media Failure
Update: Cancel culture continues. Morrissey, former singer of The Smiths and known for conservative viewpoints has cancelled the US leg of his singing tour (https://theamericansdigest.com/morrissey-pulls-out-of-u-s-tour-following-death-threats/).
The fallout continues. By now, Jimmy Kimmel, the late night show host, has been shelved and leftists suddenly care about freedom of speech. Gees, did they all of a sudden become “right wingers”? Anyone who had been kicked off social media or doxxed or cancelled, such as Roseanne Barr or banning Trump from Twitter, over the last decade had to wonder where were such people just a few short years ago.
I have doubts people understand the gravity of the situation. Did you know George Floyd and Charlie Kirk were both born on October 14? Yet, their lives and deaths and the public response could not be more different. Conservatives are no longer willing to go along with an idealistic principle when under attack. Kirk was murdered in front of his wife and kids. Many people of various persuasions have received death threats from deranged progressives and such threats cannot be dismissed any longer. Reciprocity was dismissed so now retribution is in the air.
If Kimmel was a comedian, and he is not, he would have a sense of timing and parsing, and need for contemplation, but apparently he has none of these skills. His demise was predetermined.
Brendan Carr, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had made public statements about Jimmy Kimmel, but this was after ABC affiliates decided to shelve Kimmel. Yet, the controversy missed the point. Broadcast media, particularly late night shows, are largely dying out. Kimmel had been losing viewership. This phenomenon reflects the actions of Chris Rock who stopped doing college shows in 2014 and Jerry Seinfeld did the same in 2015. The woke crowd killed comedy. So Kimmel had been regurgitating false and misleading information for some time, but without consequence until he made reference to Kirk’s assassination.
Carr had mentioned these problems in relation to news to Disney back in 2024 (https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/Carr-Letter-to-Disney-12212024.pdf).
The major problem with the legacy media is they want to lead with breaking news but often in a breaking event, much information is poorly formed. By the time the World Herald goes to print, and release their version of events, the story has likely changed. This is why people take to the internet looking for in-depth interviews and alternative sources, and the latest updates.
Yet, the Progressive Democrats now look like those Westboro Baptist freaks, who want to attack anything they can. They try to cast the promotion and concern for Charlie Kirk as a foreshadowing of escorting the worship of the Devil (https://blogs.godhatesfags.com/2025/09/20/open-letter-the-worlds-promotion-of-charlie-kirk/).
In such environment, reconciliation is not possible. The need for self-defense among conservatives and those who disagree with the left becomes necessary as the threats are no longer empty threats.
I couldn't agree with you more!
Reasonable thinking people have had enough of leftist loonies in the media egging on the violent and deranged to attack and threaten the lives of others.
Nowhere is this more evident than with the way that the pressure came down on Bob Iger to DO SOMETHING about Kimmell before the FCC even had a chance to do more than say that he was making them more work of the kind that they REALLY DON'T LIKE.
The advertisers were the driving force behind Kimmell's removal by Iger because they knew that if their products were advertised on his program, they'd be seen (correctly) as supporting his inflammatory statements. They didn't want the Bud Light treatment.
The stations additionally caught hell from the listeners and viewers, who made it clear that if they didn't pull Kimmell, they'd never tune in again. All of those stations are already competing with everything else online, they didn't need this kind of a turn-off driving away their viewership too.
I call that... WINNING.