The decision about whether to keep #JimmyKimmel on his late-night #ABC show depends on far more than his jokes. The choice is complicated by a web of #business & #regulatory considerations involving ABC’s parent company, other #media companies & the #Trump admin.

It’s the inevitable result of industry #consolidation that over years has built giant #corporations with wide-ranging interests.

#MafiaState #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #extortion #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-kimmel-suspended-charlie-kirk-business-interests-fcc-f18546e00ba03980c03b4cda4c576aa8

#ABC owner Walt #Disney Co., a massive organization with far-flung operations, frequently seeks #federal #regulatory approval to expand, buy or sell businesses or acquire licenses. And the #Trump admin has not spared the company from *investigations*, opening multiple inquiries in just the past few months to probe possible antitrust, programming & hiring *violations*.

#law #business #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #JimmyKimmel #media #consolidation #corporations #extortion #tyranny #MafiaState

The decision about whether to keep #JimmyKimmel on his late-night #ABC show depends on far more than his jokes. The choice is complicated by a web of #business & #regulatory considerations involving ABC’s parent company, other #media companies & the #Trump admin.

It’s the inevitable result of industry #consolidation that over years has built giant #corporations with wide-ranging interests.

#MafiaState #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #extortion #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-kimmel-suspended-charlie-kirk-business-interests-fcc-f18546e00ba03980c03b4cda4c576aa8

So they made the call: “#JimmyKimmel Live” would temporarily go dark.
That decision—the product of a spider’s web of interlocking #political & #financial pressures placed atop one of the country’s biggest #corporations —quickly morphed into a flashpoint for #FreeSpeech in the #US. Many #Democrats, actors & comedians cried foul as #FarRight activists celebrated.On a diplomatic trip in Britain, #Trump knocked #Kimmel for “bad ratings” & proclaimed that #ABC “should have fired him a long time ago.”

If you haven't seen the 2003 original, made in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals and only 5 years before the corpogenic Global Financial Crisis, get thee to the archives;

https://archive.org/details/The_Corporation_/

#film #documentary#TheCorporation #corporations #capitalism#GFC

Remember, #capitalism is not defined by “ #markets & #businesses & #trade”. It is a system where #production is controlled overwhelmingly by #capital: the big #banks, large #corporations, & the 1% who own the majority of investable assets.

#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive

Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman

I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflection of thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.

#tech #technology #privacy #data #comic #cartoon #surveillance #consumers #corporations

Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman

I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflection of thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.

#tech #technology #privacy #data #comic #cartoon #surveillance #consumers #corporations

BREAKING: This new report by the #UN Special Rapporteur #FrancescaAlbanese identifies the main #corporations that are profiting from #occupation & #genocide in Palestine.

#Israel#Palestine#MiddleEast#Genocide#EthnicCleansing#Palestinians#Palestinian#Israeli#Politics#Gaza#Egypt#Lebanon#Syria#Iraq#Iran#SaudiArabia#Qatar#Yemen#USA#Zionism#BDS#Ceasefire#CeasefireNow#ArmsEmbargo#ArmsEmbargoNow#Netanyahu#BenjaminNetanyahu#FreeGaza#FreePalestine

One simple metric of inequality in the UK:

in 1980 the ration of median FTSE100 CEO pay to median UK wages was: £1 - £11;

In 2022 it had become £1 - £118.

I think it's safe to say that is not commensurate with the improvement in the conduct & success of the top management of UK corporations; nor, should it be said, a fall in the contribution to the UK economy of the work of the general population.

The rentiers (as we know) have stolen our wages.

#inequality #economics #corporations
h/t FT

One simple metric of inequality in the UK:

in 1980 the ration of median FTSE100 CEO pay to median UK wages was: £1 - £11;

In 2022 it had become £1 - £118.

I think it's safe to say that is not commensurate with the improvement in the conduct & success of the top management of UK corporations; nor, should it be said, a fall in the contribution to the UK economy of the work of the general population.

The rentiers (as we know) have stolen our wages.

#inequality #economics #corporations
h/t FT