Did Kimmel Cancellations Hit Disney+? There Might Be an Impact, But Don’t Bet on Seeing It

2025 年 9 月 30 日 business, entertainment, media, politics

The timing of streaming billing cycles, and a decision by Disney to stop reporting subscriber numbers, will likely obscure any impact on protest cancelations. Disneys Jimmy Kimmel affair may be over for now, but the company may have to grapple with the repercussions for some time: To what extent did the Kimmel suspension impact what has become the company’s key growth driver, Disney+? While much of the talk about Kimmel has focused on the role of the FCC and local station owners like Sinclair and Nexstar in the decision, there was also a concerted (and very public!) pressure campaign to get.

Megyn Kelly: Burn The Witches!

2025 年 9 月 24 日 controversy, media, politics, religion, social issues

This woman has just gotten worse and worse since she left Fox. We’ve been listening to the right wing demonize anyone who’s dared to criticize their newly canonized saint Charlie Kirk following his horrific shooting — and for daring to talk about the things he said while he was still alive — and blaming those same critics for the actions of a crazy person who was apparently upset with Kirk’s hateful rhetoric for taking his life. The right has also been very upset with the publication Jezebel for their satirical article published just a couple of days before Kirk was shot, joking that they’d hired some witches on Etsy to curse Kirk, which they’ve since removed from their site: Jezebel has pulled down a story from its website with the headline, We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk. The publication said it did so on the recommendation of our lawyers after Kirk, a prominent MAGA influencer, was shot and killed Sept. 10 while speaking at an event at a Utah university. read more.