U.S. lawmakers, citing concerns that content related to China was behind the cancellation, asked Apple to explain the abrupt end of political comedian Jon Stewart’s television show on its streaming service, according to a letter made public on Wednesday.
Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina for Reuters:
The New York Times reported last month that Stewart’s show on Apple’s streaming service was ending, the result of creative differences. The newspaper said Stewart told members of his staff that potential show topics related to China and artificial intelligence were causing concern to Apple executives.
MacDailyNews Take:
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
— MacDailyNews (@MacDailyNews) October 20, 2023
“While companies have the right to determine what content is appropriate for their streaming service, the coercive tactics of a foreign power should not be directly or indirectly influencing these determinations,” the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Competition with the Chinese Communist Party said in the letter to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook.
The letter asked representatives of Apple for a briefing on its concerns by Dec. 15, 2023. And said it also exected to speak with representatives of Stewart.
“To reassure the creative community in light of these reports, we also respectfully request that Apple publicly commit that content that could be perceived as critical of the CCP or the PRC is welcome on Apple TV+ and other Apple services,” said the letter, signed by the panel’s Republican chairperson, Representative Michael Gallagher, and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the panel’s ranking Democrat.
MacDailyNews Take: The thing was cancelled because not enough people watched it. “The Problem with Jon Stewart” has been a flop since it debuted and, even after attempting to rework it and an extra season gifted by Apple, it still couldn’t be saved – likely because Jon Stewart passed his sell-by date a decade ago.
And, by the way, Apple can cancel any series it wants to cancel whenever it so wishes, even if they do it to appease the Chinese Communist Party.
See also: ‘The Problem with Jon Stewart’ on Apple TV+ is that it’s a flop – April 18, 2022
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What happened to his face?!
With all the MASSIVE problems caused by the lying, corrupt, racist, pedophile dementia patient install in the White House, they waste their time on this bulshit??????????????????
What MDN claims is the complete opposite of reality – how can you make such an utterly false claim over something so easy to verify? I guess you think that anything left wing cannot possibly be popular. https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/10/14/the-problem-with-jon-stewart-takes-top-spot-as-apples-most-viewed-unscripted-series
You lie by omission.
That was for the first episode of the series. At that time, its only “unscripted series” competition on Apple TV+ was “The Oprah Conversation.” As soon as the second episode, it became clear they no one was wasting their time watching the POS show.
“The Problem with Jon Stewart” was a flop. That’s why it’s no longer being produced.
Stop lying by omission and calling it a “fact check,” yf liar.
MDN nailed it. “Creative differences” was a cover for low viewership.
Good Old Trump cult leader, “Truth Detector” (😂) and MDN in general, never, ever fail to elicit howls of laughter with the posts/replies on this website. It is essential daily reading in my office for my co-workers & I. It’s our favorite example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Please, please keep them coming.
Libturd stupidity has caused:
-Lying, corrupt, racist, pedophile, dementia patient and whore installed in the White House
–complete unquailed VP who is unable to form a single sentence
-two completely unqualified judges on the Supreme Court place there because of their race and sex insteaåd of qualifications.
-Burning cities
-Occupy movement
-Doubled gas prices
-Gas pipeline shut down
-US emergency oil stockpiles drop to lowest level since 1983
-Unaffordable healthcare insurance
-Legalization of marijuana
-Baby killing
-Wants to ban gas stoves to save children but has no problem killing unborn children
-Destroyed economy
-Crashed stock market
-Upcoming recession
-Highest inflation in 40 years
-Weaponized IRS
-Destroyed school system
-Open border crisis
-Illegal aliens getting drivers licenses
-Illegal aliens getting free medical insurance
-Illegal aliens getting tax-payer money
– National Guard pay delayed after congress celebrates itself for spending $1.7 Trillion
-Trading a useless, athlete for a notorious arms dealer (Merchant of Death), while leaving behind a USMC veteran, because she is an anti-American, black lezbo.
-Releasing a notorious arms dealer (Merchant of Death) while trying to deprive Americans the right to defend themselves with gun control so we can protect ourselves from violent libturds
-Red flag laws
-Voter fraud enabling
-No voter ID
-Illegals allow to vote
-Illegals given drivers licenses
-Labeling all non-libturds as domestic terrorists
-Labeling all non-libturds as racist
-“Extremists” used to be real terrorists, now it people who want to secure the border or keep pornography out of elementary schools
-Electric car mandates during electric crisis
-Woke bullshit -“Identify as” bullshit
-“Inclusion” but only what libturds want to include
-Kneeling for National Anthem
-Woke hirings preferred over actual competence
-Obese, mentally ill person installed as head of health
-Mentally ill, genderfluid ‘puppy’ thief installed at Department of Energy
-Jill Biden gives biological male “Women of Courage” award
-320 genders
-It/that, them/they, and WTF pronouns
-Misgendering bullshit
-Epstein client list hidden
-Russia collusion bullshit
-Destruction of free speech
-Transgender perversion forced on children
-Drag queen story hours
-Boys in the girls’ bathrooms.
-Tampon dispensers in the men’s room
-Boys in girls’ sports
-Mentally ill man pretending to be a woman on a beer can
-Mentally ill man being a model for women’s underwear- -Cancel culture in the name of “tolerance”
-Not OK for a child to pretend to be an Indian for a game, but OK for a man to pretend to be a woman in real life
-Men can get pregnant
-Record underemployment
-Defund police
-Soft on crime policies
-Zero bail laws
-Record high crime
-Obese, ugly men winning female beauty pageants
-Food shortages
-Corruption of Legislators
-Corruption of Judges
-Corrupt FBI
-Corrupt CIA
-Corrupt media
-Corrupt social media
-Acceptance of Socialism and rejection of Capitalism
-Election and reelection of incredibly stupid, mentally unfit politicians: AOC, racist Omar, We have to pass it to find out what in it, Pelosi, Guam will tip over Hank Johnson, brain damaged Fetterman, Dementia Joe—just to name a few.
-Ukraine gets: $200 billion, Congress gets: 41% pay increase, Taliban gets: $85 billion, Iran gets: $200 billion, Americans get: $7 eggs, $4 gas, 50% increase on electricity, free crack pipes, open borders, fentanyl crisis, toxic spills
-The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and…
And you are so fscking stupid that you think you are the smart ones!
You want to start a revolution, but you can’t even start a lawnmower.
The next civil war will be fought between Americans and libturds. One side has 300 million firearms and trillions of rounds of ammunition, the other has strap-on dildos and toilet plungers.
Fsck Joe Biden. Fsck libturds
Hey smug mocking brainless — this has nothing to do with Trump or cult leaders. Pitiful smear linkage because you don’t have ANYTHING except snickering anonymously in your darkened corner. Please, keep your STUPIDITY coming…
So Lawrence, in your office how much does it pay to be a boot licking gopher for Karine Jean-Pierre?
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, “Jon Stewart,” thought he was invincible.
He found out otherwise, so he dropped the “Apple opposed talk of ‘China’ and ‘AI’ (?)” PR line to his commie comrades at the NYT instead of owning up to being a viewership failure. If the show worked from the outset, it wouldn’t have been so drastically re-tooled after season one. That version failed, too. Apple declined to give him a third strike. (Had him talk a walk instead.)
Now, self-serving idiot politicians want to look like they’re “tough on China” by asking stupid questions because ol’ Jon Stew tried to do a little PR face-saving through NYT propagandists.
As MDN says so clearly above, “Apple can cancel any series it wants to cancel whenever it so wishes, even if they do it to appease the Chinese Communist Party.”
That’s true.
And Apple sucks!
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