Apple TV+ is canceling “The Problem With Jon Stewart” The New York Times reports citing “several people with knowledge of the decision.”
Benjamin Mullin, John Koblin, and Tripp Mickle for The New York Times:
Jon Stewart’s show on Apple’s streaming service is abruptly coming to an end… Mr. Stewart and Apple executives decided to part ways in recent days, two of the people said. Members of the show’s staff were informed about its end on Thursday. Taping of episodes for the third season was scheduled to begin within a couple of weeks, one of the people said.
Mr. Stewart and Apple executives had disagreements over some of the topics and guests on “The Problem,” two of the people said. Mr. Stewart told members of his staff on Thursday that potential show topics related to China and artificial intelligence were causing concern among Apple executives, a person with knowledge of the meeting said. As the 2024 presidential campaign begins to heat up, there was potential for further creative disagreements, one of the people said.
MacDailyNews Take: Color us unsurprised.
“As per the teaser trailer, The Problem With Jon Stewart is that he’s/it’s not funny.” – MacDailyNews, August 5, 2021
See also: ‘The Problem with Jon Stewart’ on Apple TV+ is that it’s a flop – April 18, 2022
How to save face when your low-viewership flop is finally canceled (after a bonus season gifted by Apple)? Drop the threadbare "creative differences" into the complicit press and let the echo chamber do the work. pic.twitter.com/GgBVGCREeE
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Apple and journalism are incompatible because Apple has always been extremely avoidant of political controversy. This was inevitable no matter how funny Jon was.
NO. Apple is extremely avoidant of violating woke Democrat politics and straying to the RIGHT upsetting the closed minded snowflakes who CANNOT handle free speech and diversity. There, I fixed it for you…
Says GuttersnipeTrashGoeB who thinks storming the Capitol was ‘good ‘ole boys having fun’/Antifa/FBI provocateurs, that guns everywhere makes us all safer, that Covid is a globalist plot along with climate change and that banning LGBTQ rights, books and historical racial bias and persecution discussions is the only true measure of free speech.
I can smell the fear wussy.
Cook retorted a number of yrs ago that those disappointed with “his” commitment to and spending towards “green” energy should look for owning other stocks. That is about as political as a CEO can & “should” be and, it’s also something SJobs avoided with full knowledge a CEO is serving diverse paradigms. “Extremely avoidant” implies ignorance, or APPL’s positions align with one’s paradigm. There are numerous other examples that belie “extremely avoidant”.
The Problem with Jon Stewart was it had Jon Stewart.
Do better macdailynews, or wind up like Jon.
Do better at what exactly, genius?
MacDailyNews said the show sucked from the outset and now it’s canceled.
Perfect.
The Problem was Jon Stewart.
Jon Stewart should be picked up by MAX. He could then talk about anything he chooses without offending Apple’s marketing needs. Apple does not want to upset its 2nd largest iPhone market by allowing frank discussions of the Chinese autocracy and its deviant paranoid behaviors. On AppleTV+ Jon always seemed constrained.
Exactly why does anyone care about the classless clown 🤡 John Stewart? He was and continues to be a joke. But the first rule of humor is the joke must be funny. John Stewart isn’t funny. He’s a political hack. He’s a narcissist impersonating a news junky pontificating is own biases as if he was infallible and believing the world should genuflect at his every word.
The only thing less relevant than John Stewart are those who formed their political/social opinions and chose who they would vote for by listening to him for their daily news intake. They are mindless numbed robots that never had an original thought of their own.
Think I’m wrong? Then explain how didn’t such a well-informed comedian keeps loosing him job?
*John Stuart Leibowitz
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As usual, the MDN trumptards come through with priceless comments.
For a cult that always points out other people being triggered, they sure do get triggered often. 😂
Triggered much, Jason BS?
Facepalm much?