From: goober@nospam.nospam   
      
   Ed P  wrote in news:10aui8p$3462h$1@dont-email.me:   
      
   > On 9/23/2025 12:30 PM, MikeJ wrote:   
   >> Ed P  wrote in news:10au7ke$31221$2@dont-email.me:   
   >>   
   >>> On 9/23/2025 8:28 AM, Frank wrote:   
   >>>> On 9/22/2025 8:10 PM, Jim Joyce wrote:   
   >>>>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:57:36 -0400, Ed P  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Looks like The First Amendment out powered the MAGA censors.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> For now. The country probably isn't safe just yet.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Disney/ABC was losing a lot of business too, as they should have.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Absolutely.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Forget the MAGA crap.  It is all about money.  Works out to   
   >>>> probably a lose lose for Disney.  MAGA is laughing saying the left   
   >>>> eats their own.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Jimmy Kimmel's average viewership in the first half of 2025 was   
   >>>> around 1.77 million total viewers, placing his show second in   
   >>>> late-night television behind Stephen Colbert. While this was a   
   >>>> significant decline from 2015, when his show averaged 2.4 million   
   >>>> viewers, it was still higher than Jimmy Fallon's average   
   >>>> viewership.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Approximately 200 to 250 people work on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," the   
   >>>> show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, according to sources from late   
   >>>> September 2025.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Jimmy Kimmel reportedly made about   
   >>>> $16 million per year from his role as host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!   
   >>>> before the show's suspension in September 2025.   
   >>>   
   >>> Sure, money is a big factor.  But they tried to ignore the First   
   >>> Amendment and use the government to shut him up.   
   >>   
   >> You're wrong.  This has nothing to do with the First Amendment.  If   
   >> it did, Nexstar and Sinclair would be taken to court for preempting   
   >> that crappy, boring, show.   
   >   
   > They caved under pressure from the MAGA FCC   
      
   No, they didn't.  It's about money.   
      
   Want to talk about government pressure?  Here you go.   
      
   https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/google-admits-censorship   
   -under-biden-promises-end-bans-youtube-accounts   
      
   And how about what Elon Musk discovered about government pressure when   
   he bought Twitter?  That was 1984-ish, not 1934-ish.   
      
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