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Jon Stewart Confirms Apple Canceled Show: 'They Didn't Want Me to Say Things That Might Get Me in Trouble'
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Apple is a big corporation. Its news and media outlet should follow rules of the market: hold the center for maximum reach. Which means: "do not go too left, do not go too right". Stewart perhaps crossed the center line and his show was losing viewership (I don't watch his shows and have zero interest in them; just my assumption but I know he was actually losing viewers). In that sense, there was no value in keeping his show. Once a show becomes too radical, in order to keep or raise viewers' number, it sooner or later mutates into a clickbait show of varying degrees, in which case it is doomed to fail when it becomes too radical and uncomfortable to watch. Maybe ok for its niche, but not for general masses.
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What's not "obvious" is this: telling the truth doesn't mean one is not sympathetic. To the contrary, putting it in such stark terms highlights the depravity of the CCP machine. You think this pearl-clutching is helping Chinese citizens? It isn't.
sadly, probably they will not. History of China is not that simple and CCP's history is not that simple either.
It’s not the full story obviously. The restriction was imposed on the accommodation of someone who had been to Wuhan. It was soon seen by the government as an over-reaction, and the metal bars used to secure the door were removed.
But if you want to use The Sun as your source of facts, I’m not surprised you have that bias. Taking anything out of context is not the brightest thing people can do.
There’s a whole thing called diplomacy that deals with this. When it comes to Chinese government it’s all about gaining trust and not publicly exposing their (very mildly put) shortcomings when it comes to eg human rights etc.
Just telling the truth can destroy a lot here. Am I ok with that? Not really, but those are the rules and I don’t make them.
Just for FYI: China always has been a merchant state. Means it pays zero attention to democracy or human rights as far as merchants make money. While CCP is called communist, it lost long ago any communist ideas (public ownership of means of production, land for collective farms, state prices, equal incomes). All that is gone. The only remaining thing is that long ago, CCP fought GoMinDan (another nationalist party) and won and in order to get support, transformed into a communist party and by 1978 that experiment was over either. The current result is just a political regime which forgot about its communist roots and generally sunk into corruption of unheard proportions, yet actually developing economy (a classic merchant state). You can criticize it as much as you want but if merchants are happy, they will stick to what works (CCP).
I mean he can say whatever he wants. But unless Apple is lying about his poor ratings, it makes no differenceWell, sure, maybe not the best ratings but that’s now why he was cancelle.
Jon Stewart Says Apple TV+ Canceled His Show Because ‘They Didn’t Want Me to Say Things That Might Get Me in Trouble’
Jon Stewart's Apple TV+ series ended abruptly after two seasons. He says the tech giant "didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble.”variety.com
I still think that Colbert leaving for The Late Show was one of the biggest losses for TV comedy. He was brilliant in Colbert Report, and quite boring in The Late show.
I hope Jon brings back some of the good old comedy take on daily news. This area has been a complete sh*tshow ever since that Trevor guy took over and ran it to the ground.
But remember 1 unit of courage by Apple is equivalent to 2 units of courage by other manufacturers.
Or they released him to let him fly….
"I wanted a place to unload thoughts as we get into this election season."
It seems like they did the right thing for themselves and for him. They didn’t try and censure him like Fox do with their puppets.
I never found him especially funny, seems to me his programme was aimed more at getting applause from an audience that already agrees with him than in getting laughs (and for the record, I am very much the audience that agrees with him), but I still don't like this attitude from Apple, even if it's entirely understandable and unsurprising.
I don't think any of us would expect them to host people saying disparaging things about the Chinese government, that's not in their economic interest, but that being the case they shouldn't pretend to be support truth-speaking.
I don't think any of us would expect them to host people saying disparaging things about the Chinese government, that's not in their economic interest, but that being the case they shouldn't pretend to be support truth-speaking.
When did he say disparaging things about the Chinese government?
Edit: Nevermind, I found the article in NYT
But Mr. Stewart and Apple executives had disagreements over some of the topics and guests on “The Problem,” two of the people said. Mr. Stewart told members of his staff on Thursday that potential show topics related to China and artificial intelligence were causing concern among Apple executives, a person with knowledge of the meeting said.
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They could also have done more to help customers who have needs which cannot be afforded normally. Apple could make such a difference to people like me who cannot work because of illness and I rely on a small amount of money from my fixed income. My life and those of thousands of others could be much improved dramatically.
Unfortunately the worlds social behavior has changed because every year people are becoming more and more offended by the smallest of comments or words and this has caused companies/businesses to be very very cautious of who they deal with and how they deal with them because they are afraid of being accused of supporting the accuser (person who caused the offense) or afraid of being boycotted by customers/consumers and advertisers.
A very very good example of this is the issue that affected Bud Light beer when they used the face of a transgender influencer on their cans/bottles. Many many consumers were offended by this thus chose to boycott the brand which caused the sales of the beer to nose dive drastically and shares in the company to drop. Wrongly or rightly about the issue of transgender, the point of issue here is that many many consumers were offended and chose to boycott the brand. Many many companies and businesses will be cutely aware of this cause and effect issue with bud light, many many consumers were offended so they boycotted the brand. Which translates to, if you offend the consumer/viewer, expect to be boycotted which is something I have no doubt Apple is cutely aware of this and therefore chose to cancel Jon Stewart show rather than have viewers offended and boycotting Apple TV.
A very very good example of this is the issue that affected Bud Light beer when they used the face of a transgender influencer on their cans/bottles. Many many consumers were offended by this thus chose to boycott the brand which caused the sales of the beer to nose dive drastically and shares in the company to drop. Wrongly or rightly about the issue of transgender, the point of issue here is that many many consumers were offended and chose to boycott the brand. Many many companies and businesses will be cutely aware of this cause and effect issue with bud light, many many consumers were offended so they boycotted the brand. Which translates to, if you offend the consumer/viewer, expect to be boycotted which is something I have no doubt Apple is cutely aware of this and therefore chose to cancel Jon Stewart show rather than have viewers offended and boycotting Apple TV.
He didn't. That's the point. He wan't allowed to.
I'm extrapolating based on the above rumour. Here's the logic:
1. It was going to be negative. The shows wasn't called Things That Are Awesome With Jon Stewart.
2. Anything about China is about the Chinese government, because it's a dictatorship. It could have just been about issues in China with, for example, conditions in factories, something not directly government controlled, but really that's still going to be seen as criticising the regime, because, again, dictatorship.
3. Apple has a clear financial incentive to keep the Chinese regime happy.
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You lost me on your rant when you incorrectly called China a dictatorship. If you are going to say something, make it informed.
Yeah, OK, and Russia isn't either. Can't wait to see who wins the next election.
None of those things exist in one of Apple's biggest growth markets and the place where most of their products are made - CHINA.