This is a bad look for Apple: it shows that there’s basically no editorial independence at Apple TV, something that has been a well-established feature at for-profit newspapers and television channels for decades. This clearly demonstrates that Apple TV cannot be trusted when it comes to serious news.
Editorial independence a well established feature of for profit media? The fuck you smoking?
I don’t need to smoke anything, I simply live in the EU where this is commonplace.
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Don’t worry, with media independence being an area of concern for the EU, and with the Digital Services Act in the process of being enacted, we’ll no doubt soon Brussels-effect your biggest media providers into compliance. The rest will follow soon thereafter.
This is disappointing of Apple. You hire someone like Jon Stewart and you have to expect him to do hard hitting journalism! Apple is one of the biggest companies in the whole world, they can afford to support their journalists. I’m sure HBO has gone to bat for John Oliver for worse.
What did you expect? Tim Crook and his gang always wanted to please China. Money is everything they care (to be fair to Apple, this issue affects probably every single company).
That’s why you can’t ever rely on them.
They have their mouths full of winnie the pooh’s cock, and at this point they dont care about anything else.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they already monitor your imessages and if they are critical of china they snitch to the local confucius institute.
“According to The Hollywood Reporter, ahead of its decision to end The Problem, Apple approached Stewart directly and expressed its need for the host and his team to be “aligned” with the company’s views on topics discussed. Rather than falling in line when Apple threatened to cancel the show, Stewart reportedly decided to walk.”
The least surprising thing possible to any Jon Stewart fan.
I can’t wait to see him on the late night shows.
One of the few people that can stand up to Apple, take an L, and still be more than okay in career and spirit.
Good on him for sticking to his ideals. I don’t always see eye to eye with Stewart, but he’s smart, principled, and articulate. Very interesting to hear how Apple is so married to China and AI. I wonder how much we don’t hear because companies and media are afraid of angering the CCP. Thankfully Biden is continuing Trump’s policies of decoupling from China. We can’t do business with genocidal dictatorships and expect to walk away unscathed.
We can’t do business with genocidal dictatorships and expect to walk away unscathed.
Yeah, we learned not to do business with genocidal dictatorships after ww2… Except all those dictatorships that we funded to kill leftists.
But then we learned not to do business with genocidal dictatorships after the cold war… Except all those dictatorships that we funded to buy oil.
But this time I’m sure we definitely learned not to do business with genocidal dictatorships even when they align with our policy goals.
Let’s take the win. This time we heed history.
I am very neutral on this in general. Honestly, Stewart does not need Apple at this point pretty much at all.
But man, to have been a fly on the wall in that meeting. I’ve seen Stewart’s “disappointed in you and not particularly worried about it” face and it’s weapons grade old dad disappointment. There were definitely sweaty outlines on many of those chairs by the end of it.
Stewart does not need Apple at this point pretty much at all.
Did he ever tho?
It’s Jon Stewart. He can start a YouTube show and hit millions of subscribers within a week.
And then get banned from YouTube because he’s not aligning with the company
If Russel Brand can be on Youtube without getting banned for his content, I think Jon would be fine.
He needs a platform for his show. He probably wouldn’t care if it was on OAN if he was able to do his own thing.
He’s not going to do Youtube. If you’re an actual celebrity, that’s career suicide.
Not YouTube: too controversial. But I wouldn’t put it past him to start his own federated service.
It’s almost like corporate profits are more important than the message.
Always has been 🔫
Thank god it was cancelled… people would have discovered that china uses ai for controlling their citizens (and possibly others). Something that is totally not known to anyone
I appreciate that this is a forum for Apple enthusiasts, but as someone who is not particularly enthusiastic about any big tech company but loves Jon Stewart, I consider this good news. Hopefully he’ll keep it going somewhere else.
I’m sure he can move his show to another service without these Apple hangups.
Honestly, I don’t get why he didn’t just go on YouTube full episodes instead of apple. I would love to watch his show, but I don’t want to pay apple a subscription.
Because Google didn’t offer him a contract
Why does he need a contract. He can just make a YouTube channel and start making money from ad revenue (I know it’s not much), sponsors, patreon, memberships and so on.
He needs a contract to make money. Putting his episodes on YouTube without being paid to do it would benefit Google.
The message he’s sending is: “if you want my show, pay me”.
The $250 he would earn with Adsense on YouTube is irrelevant.
You answered your own question. Not having to deal with all those different revenue streams is worth something and I’m sure Apple offered him more than he’d get that way, too
Millions of creators are “dealing” with them just fine. Not sure what so hard about setting up a patreon account or coordinating with sponsors. Pretty sure it is much easier than dealing with a multi-trillion dollar corporation. It just feels wrong he’s putting his voice behind a paywall where many people could just benefit from it if it were on YouTube.
Millions of actors get by performing in local theaters but George Clooney probably wouldn’t take that gig. Jon Stewart is not on the same level as YouTubers. I can’t imagine he’d even make half of his contract on YouTube
It just feels wrong he’s putting his voice behind a paywall where many people could just benefit from it if it were on YouTube.
I get what you mean here and agree with the sentiment. I just can’t blame him for taking the significantly better deal
Jon Stewart, as selfless as he can be, wants to get paid for his time. Ad revenue is chump change.
That would not be sustainable long term for this type of show, he’s not a single youtube content creator with maybe 1-3 editors, he has a buttload of staff who presumably get paid professional wages and his team uses a buttload of expensive professional equipment and has to do a buttload of expensive legwork and research and so on.
Canceling Apple TV over this, knew they were spineless, but this is pathetic since it’s one of the few shows I watch on it. Growing really tired of all these service subscriptions as it is.
