"this show is so important, it must continue, but instead of dying on that hill and getting fired, I'm gonna quit so I can be replaced by someone who won't rock the boat"
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Isn't it amazing how so many people have used the reasoning "I want to fight fascism, and I think the best way to do it is to quit and give my job to a fascist"?
Yeah, I agree. Force them to fire you. Resigning in protest has no benefit when the powers that be have no ethics whatsoever.
It's the same as all the times you hear about small companies "making it" because they managed to get bought out. IMO, just like how I don't think success is using money as a high score, I don't think "fighting fascism" means washing your hands of anything to do with it.
I think there's some distinction there. The founder selling out is one thing. But private equity, VC, etc all want a return on their investment and once you IPO, you become a fiduciary. Those companies produced a tool and sold it to a customer that by definition is required to be unethical.
But I agree that fighting implies an active component to it.
Yeah, you'd think a guy in that position would be smarter. If you don't fight facism, you've already lost.
Although he could be afraid I guess.
probably looking for another gig.
can't wait to see which former faux news producer gets the gig.
Sounds like maybe we should be more interested to see what Bill Owens does next.
Well, HBO has Oliver, Apple had Stewart, so I'd wager with a Disney/ABC streaming news show, unless they have one.
Apple lost Stewart because they didn’t allow him to even talk about China.
Yeah, I knew as soon as he signed up it wouldn't last. Apple is not known as a bastion of free will. Everything they do is a walled garden.
You used the word right (an ordinarily would be a wonderful pun), but just in case, I want to point out that "faux" is provided "foe" and not "fox".
Pete Hegseth is going to be needing a job soon.
can't wait for all the sweet puff pieces with conservatives.
Is this a crack pipe joke
It appears one of them will be looking for a new job soon, so this is good timing.
Challenges to the citizenship birthright, bypassing due process and courts, deporting legal residents, putting them in a famously brutal concentration camp, and now taking more news media companies captive under the accusation that they're the "lying press." Yep, totally normal.
approval for a merger with Skydance Media
NO
STOP IT
Actually enforce anti-trust instead
That department has been RIFed.
I wonder if this lawsuit could also affect The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
on the bright side, maybe Colbert will have to go back to doing The Colbert Report
That show wouldn't work anymore, Colbert got out of that at the exact right time. No matter how ridiculous of a parody of the right wing he could come up with, the real life idiots would be saying and doing things even more ridiculous the next day.
basically Onion is no longer relevant as well.
lol, that's true. good point
That would be a net benefit for society.
Comedy Cental is owned by Paramount, which also owns CBS. It's more likely the Daily Show would be a casualty.
You've got fascists in charge. It's going to be a hard fight to keep any kind of free press or broadcasting going.