"It was market forces adjusting to the new party of the rich" (DIY about Kimmel, etc)

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BU-S is a self-described a left-wing populist (and Marxist). Albeit crouched in the Kimmel controversy, part of what you see here is her expressing the emerging view that the left-center has abandoned the proletariat (working class) for other population groups (and especially wealthy elites). Note that members of the classic far-left can still have a tendency to cling to their traditional championing of the proletariat. But today, much of the left-center and some elements of the far-left heavily regard the "less-educated" working class as a primary source of all forms of bigotry. Ergo, the ironic quasi-abandonment of the proles (or at the very least the latter drifting away from the Dems for that reason, among others.) ..... RELATED (scivillage): Kimmel show executive: "We can't humanize Trump people."
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AFTER PARTY
https://youtu.be/ZXQO1rzAvlQ

[VIDEO EXCERPTS] . . . EJ: Tell me what you think.

BATYA UNGAR-SARGON: So, first of all, it's it's utterly facetious to call this comedy. Like, let's just dispense with that mythology, right?

These people [late-night talk show hosts] are political pundits.

The tone with which they deliver their lines, you can tell that they're doing political analysis, and all the jokes only go in one direction.

[...] The vast majority of mainstream media is geared towards Democrats at this point. Not for political reasons, but because the Democrats are the rich, and they are the people that the advertisers are courting. And that's really what we've seen over the last 20 years.

There was this political realignment to where the Democrats used to be the party of labor and the Republicans were the party of the country club, big business, and corporations and the wealthy. And we've seen that reverse. And it was very apparent in the last election.

Donald Trump won the majority of Americans making under $100,000 a year, and Kamala Harris won the majority making over $100,000 a year. Upwards of close to 70% of Americans at this point who make over $500,000 a year now are Democrats. Nine of the 10 richest counties in America controlled by Democrats. 75% of hedge fund donations go to Democrats. I can go on and on and on, right?

[...] Actually, 95% of donations from the top three management consulting firms go to Democrats. 75% of Silicon Valley -- down from 95%, but still 75%.

So, the Democrats are the party of the rich, which is why the mainstream media got so woke. People think it's because of politics, but it's actually more about economics. The media is built on advertising, and advertisers are not interested in the eyeballs of poor people.

This is how you end up with a situation where these so-called late night comics are making only jokes at the expense of conservatives, because they want wealthy viewers. And a shorthand for that now is to pick on conservatives and Republicans.

[...] ABC never would have disciplined him [Kimmel] for it [...] had NextStar not acted. ... I don't think the FCC is the reason ABC acted. I think it has much more to do with the fact that NextStar was pulling his show from the affiliates.

But what the FCC did do was turn ABC into the victim. And I really resent that, because that is the left's move right now. Over and over and over again, they do these reversals of the victim and the perpetrator.

They've been doing it since Charlie was assassinated, trying to make themselves the preemptive victims of future violence because they had no past violence to call upon...

Why the media went woke & destroyed comedy like Kimmel ... https://youtu.be/ZXQO1rzAvlQ

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ZXQO1rzAvlQ

[Yazata]

I don't know who she is or whether she is politically left, but I tend to agree with what she says here.

But not entirely. She overstates her (perhaps Marxist-inspired) economic-determinism angle, since I think that culture-war politics really is a lot of it. It's what most of these people really do believe. Jimmy Kimmel says what he says because those are his opinions, not because some network producer told him to take those positions to appeal to a particular advertising demographic.

And her argument works better for major media celebrities like Kimmel than it does for people like university professors or administrators, who typically are true-believers who aren't in it for the money.

But she might be on to one of many reasons why woke went mainstream so dramatically over the last 20 years. It might help explain why the network producers hired somebody like Jimmy Kimmel in the first place.