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发帖数: 478 | 1 比较客观，ABC 要当心了！
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How Will Disney Handle the ABC and Jimmy Kimmel Protests?
By Jon C. OggNovember 10, 2013 10:56 am EST
Over the weekend there was something very unusual: nationwide protests
against Jimmy Kimmel and ABC over racism. The protest that I saw was on
Saturday afternoon in Houston by the jam-packed Galleria, at the busy
intersection of Westheimer and Post Oak Blvd. The protesters had signs
calling for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired and calling for ABC to stop racism
against the Chinese. It was also calling for no fake apology. This issue has
been going on since October, and it seems to be continuing rather than
dissipating.
There were probably a couple of hundred protesters at the Houston protest at
the time. ABC now has a situation that it will have to do some serious
damage control on very soon. Jimmy Kimmel’s “Kids Table” asks kids
questions about current events, and it was not actually Kimmel himself who
made the offense.
At issue is that ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS).
Attacking ABC is one thing. The issue is whether or not this spreads to
attacking the Disney parent company or not. Then you have to wonder what
happens if protests were to start boycotts or advertiser backlash.
One of the kids on the live show suggested that the way the U.S. should deal
with its ballooning debt is to kill all the people in China. Kimmel’s
apology came over a week ago, and where this gets interesting is that Kimmel
was not the one who made the comments. He also even tried to defuse the
situation after the comments. Where the protests were pointed is that the
entire skit should have not been shown at all.
It has already been shown that ABC is no longer going to air the “Kid Table
” segment. Now the White House has a We The People petition that has over
103,000 signatures seeking a “sincere apology.” Jimmy Kimmel has over 3.2
million followers on Twitter, and the @JimmyKimmelLive also has 345,000
followers.
How this all plays out is something that remains to be seen. The calls for
“No Fake Apology” and “Fire Jimmy Kimmel Now” may grow louder. This also
challenges many aspects about what editors of shows have to decide.
Networks are of course responsible for when their public faces are involved
in scandals of this magnitude, but what about when the scandal is actually
caused by one of the guests on a show? The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS)
does face issues of this magnitude from time to time. The question is how
this will be dealt with, and then what precedent it sets going forward. | l******u
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They dont ever want to mention "thats an interesting idea", "should we allow
the Chinese to live." | X*******6
发帖数: 306 | 3 The calls for “No Fake Apology” and “Fire Jimmy Kimmel Now” may grow
louder | w*****3
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