Apple under fire over cancellation of Jon Stewart show amid China concerns
Apple under fire over cancellation of Jon Stewart show amid China concerns
US lawmakers write to Apple CEO Tim Cook over worries that ‘coercive tactics of a foreign power’ led to political TV show’s end
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Shouldn’t be too tough to explain. “We paid a lot of $ $ to bring John Stewart out of retirement, but nobody watched the first two seasons, so we didn’t make a third.”
You're covering for Apple censoring on behalf of China.
Is anyone surprised? Why even join Apple if you're expecting integrity?
Because they threw a bunch of money at him and said, "do what you want". So he made a show that was a little more medicine and a little less comedy that he knew would get lower ratings.
Have you ever seen the opening credits?
He probably had this conversation with the staff as he hired them.
I’m just saying, this wasn’t The Daily Show, either in quality or in viewership. It would be a much cleaner case to make if the show was at all popular, but there were like 12 people still watching. A 3rd season would have been a real stretch.
It's one of the few things on Apple TV I actually watched... and as a talk/news show it's not like it was terribly expensive. We know exactly WHY they cancelled it, and they deserve any vitriol directed at them, not that it will matter.
From what I remember of the original announcement, there were a couple of other topics that Apple also found it annoying that Stewart might cover, and one of them was the things companies are calling AI. NYT source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/business/media/jon-stewart-the-problem-ends.html