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Rand Paul: FCC chair had "no business" intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy

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125 points voxadam | 4 comments | 22 Sep 25 20:09 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Animats ◴[22 Sep 25 21:06 UTC] No.45339433[source]▶
Kimmel will be back on the air next week.[1]

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/09/22/j...

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mothballed ◴[22 Sep 25 21:38 UTC] No.45339840[source]▶
Streisand effect in full force. I had never heard of Kimmel nor Kirk until psychopaths tried to silence them.
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reassess_blind ◴[22 Sep 25 21:44 UTC] No.45339912[source]▶
You'd never heard of Jimmy Kimmel?
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1. 4ndrewl ◴[22 Sep 25 21:50 UTC] No.45340000[source]▶
Outside the US - I'd not heard of either of them too.
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2. reassess_blind ◴[22 Sep 25 21:54 UTC] No.45340061[source]▶
I'm outside the US too. Kirk makes sense, he was fairly niche. But Kimmel I'm surprised about. Have you heard of Jimmy Fallon and Conan O'Brien?
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3. 4ndrewl ◴[22 Sep 25 22:24 UTC] No.45340365[source]▶
Heard of one of them, not the other. Couldn't tell you what they are or do though.
4. hagbard_c ◴[24 Sep 25 05:47 UTC] No.45356740[source]▶
Whoa pardner, you've got your niche-personalities mixed up. Internationally Charlie Kirk was way better known (in nearly all ways) than Kimmel who is, after all, just a narrative amplifier on US cable television. We foreigners do not watch US cable television so Kimmel, who's that? Kirk on the other hand has started something of a revolution among younger people - and some older - with his attempts to engage them in politics. Kirk's organisation - TPUSA - is way bigger on the 'net - which we do share with those of you in the USA - than any cable TV propagandist.

To be honest I don't understand how you can miss that. People like Kimmel and O'Brien and Hannity and Maher and all the others are really of no interest outside of the US borders while people like Kirk and Shapiro and Friedman and Lindsay (just to name a few) have worldwide reach.

   We don't need no cable TV
   We don't need no thought control
   No propaganda on the TV (or PC or mobile, they all fit, take your pick)
   Media leave your shit at home
   Hey, media, leave your shit at home
   All in all you're just another brick that will fall
   All in all you're just another brick that will fall
Sing this to the tune of Pink Floyd's well-known anthem.