Dylan Byers
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313 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 3 Jun
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He knew that he was becoming a sort of leader of a resistance.
Yeah, no, I don't think so.
I think it's increasingly becoming I mean, one of the ironies here is that it is actually a lot more you can tackle in the media space by virtue of, you know, whether you're talking about YouTube or Netflix or HBO and you can ever do on broadcast television anymore or even cable.
Yeah, well, putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air was always the plan, at least according to Disney and the executives of Disney.
And indeed, they had been telegraphing that almost from the moment that they pulled him off the air.
But that said, the fact that this happened so quickly, the fact that it happened before they had any sort of assurances from Sinclair or Nextar that they were going to actually broadcast the show,
It speaks to the pushback.
I mean, the pushback, Don, was overwhelming.
I mean, you saw it.
It wasn't just the Hollywood creative community.
It was former President Barack Obama.
It was Senator Ted Cruz.
I mean, in many ways, once you get outside of that strict MAGA allegiance, you're talking about bipartisan pushback because I think there's a recognition that this isn't the country we want to live in.
No one wants the government infringing upon whether or not a late night comedian
You know, can can go on the air and say what at the end of the day was not something that Disney executives found particularly controversial.
Certainly the way it was interpreted was not even the way that Jimmy Kimmel meant it sort of might have been a little ham handed the way he said it.
It doesn't matter.
But that move to preempt him in the first place speaks to just how difficult it is for media companies like Disney media executives like Bob Iger to navigate what is a brazenly transactional president, you know, White House.
I mean, it's out there, right?
The transactional nature of what's going on and the pressure that's being applied.
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