ABC Pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Indefinitely After Host's Charlie Kirk Comments

[ramapo]

127. Spineless yes but it's all about the billionaire class

We have the 1996 Telecommunications Act to thank because this legislation removed all limits on media ownership. There never would have been corporations owning dozens or even hundreds of stations and being able to control programming for political beliefs or favors. And that's how this started. A Trump-friend, owner of lots of TV stations who wants a mega-merger approval basically stroked Trump by dumping Kimmel. We've already seen how gutless ABS/Disney is so they folded too.

Never could have happened back when there were national and market ownership limits.

Clinton signed this garbage but the bill passed both houses overwhelmingly. Thirty years later, there is far less competition and independent ownership.

This came on top of elimination of the Fairness Doctrine under Reagan.

This is all about billionaires helping billionaires.