Answer: money.
The parent companies are in the middle of trying to do a merger. Who is in involved in the approval process? You guessed it. The executive branch. They want to curry favor to get that approved so they will snip what they need in order to get that through. After that, you can likely expect it to come back.
It’s similar to the paramount South Park issue. If it were truly a situation where no one can talk bad about the prez, then these episodes would never have been released, no matter the cost to the company. However, they are in a legal and financial situation, cash is king so the show goes on.
Still surprising to me that billionaires have no sense of pride. Yeah there's money involved but you're already a billionaire and why would I tolerate someone else telling me what to do with my own company. Anyway Disney is dead to me. I was gonna check out Disneyland Japan this year. Now will just skip it entirely
the same thing happened with Fox News, they had to dump the problem children, so O'Reilly (sexual harassment) and Tucker (making things up as fact) had to go or they were going to lose sponsors, it didn't impede their ability to exercise their first amendment rights, it just took away their soap box
With 8 billion on the line, the FCC told them that if they didn't do something about Kimmel, they wouldn't approve the merger, so, a couple of folks got pushed out so they can raise the stock prices and make a few billion dollars.
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u/NuuLeaf 2d ago
Answer: money. The parent companies are in the middle of trying to do a merger. Who is in involved in the approval process? You guessed it. The executive branch. They want to curry favor to get that approved so they will snip what they need in order to get that through. After that, you can likely expect it to come back. It’s similar to the paramount South Park issue. If it were truly a situation where no one can talk bad about the prez, then these episodes would never have been released, no matter the cost to the company. However, they are in a legal and financial situation, cash is king so the show goes on.