'America is not happy': ABC under fire for pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Ilandar@lemmy.today⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-20/complaints-about-kimmel-axing-meant-for-us-abc-sent-to-australia/105793428

In short:

The American Broadcasting Company has axed Jimmy Kimmel Live! for comments the host made referencing the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has received hundreds of complaints intended for America’s ABC about the show being cancelled.

The vast majority of complaints sent to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation contained expressions of dismay, with many citing concerns about free speech and the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

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timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
LOL. A strongly worded letter will save democracy. When are people going to wake up & realize they’re government is controlled by the same corporations they constantly spend their 💰 money to support?

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- CTDummy@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A strongly worded letter to the wrong media outlet, in the wrong country is sure to do the trick. Though if the education system in the US was even halfway functional Trump wouldn’t be president. Almost as if it’s by design.
  
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  - WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Conservatism can’t survive once a highly educated populace reaches a certain threshold of average intelligence. They knew that, and they took it personally.
    
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Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Lmao; I was really confused reading that title in this comm, until I read a bit further.

Oh America 🤦

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- Roidecoeur@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  To be fair, America wasn’t really happy before this whole Kimmel kerfuffle (which is barely a blip on the radar at this point). And I’m not up-to-date on the emotional socio-cultural barometer of Australia. Anyone know how Australia’s feeling atm?
  
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  - dgriffith@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Well right now the barometer is running about 85 percent glad of our Westminster-style democracy, 10 percent secondhand embarrassment and alarm about the state of the US, and then of course there’s the omnipresent 5 percent who think that everything the US has done l and is currently doing should be slavishly copied here.
    
    That last 5 percent can generally defined as the opinions of the proportion of the population that, kindly speaking, have a few kangaroos loose in the ol’ top paddock.
    
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  - princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Feeling about what particularly?
    
    In terms of large cultural events, we had some of the largest-ever protests in this country at the start of August, in support of Australian recognition of the Palestinian genocide. Followed up by some much, much smaller, nationalist, racist right-wing protests that were hijacked by neo-nazis at the end of August. Our Prime Minister is currently in the US for the UN general assembly, where he plans on recognising Palestinian statehood.
    
    In saying that about the right-wing in this country, at our federal election earlier this year the main centre-right party completely collapsed under a landslide by the centre-left. Our Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, is pretty milquetoast in my opinion. But he at least seems steadfast in not allowing Trump to bully us into submission, so far anyway.
    
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iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ah this reminds me of a right wing demonstration in Turkey infront of the Dutch Embassy because of something bad Mark Holland had said about Turkey.

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- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well, it is dry, isn’t it?
  
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- FLP22012005@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Wasn’t there a Chechnya/Czechia mixup a couple of years ago as well? (This comment was brought to you by Autocorrect, I couldn’t have done it without it)
  
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