Ted Cruz thinks the FCC stepped over the line in ordering Disney's ABC to file for an accelerated renewal of broadcast licenses of its eight local TV stations -- seemingly in response to a joke Jimmy Kimmel told about Melania Trump on late-night television.
I was sort of intentionally being reductive to make the point that it’s pretty fucked up that our bravest and most trustworthy media figures all come out of comedy, some of it pretty low-brow.
There’s some decent voices in the American mainstream media, but most of them are so terrified of getting canceled by the so-called free-speech absolutists that the satirists (if one can even call Kimmel that) are having to do real work in spreading information and speaking truth to power.
I get what you were saying, I just think we can also recognize comedians can do good work while making jokes at the same time. They always have done this. The good ones, anyhow.