Apple Cancelled Jon Stewart Because Tech Executives Were Afraid of the Truth
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Sure, Apple TV is a big platform with a wide reach, which is attractive to anyone in entertainment, but did he really expect them to allow him to broach subjects in ways that would threaten their bottom line?
Pretending he walked away because of his ethics, not because few people were watching and his show was not a commercial success.
The show’s first episode was seen by just 180,000 US homes in the first week it debuted last fall, measurement firm Samba TV said. That number dropped to 78% to 40,000 by its fifth episode, which aired in early March.
Stewart’s comic rival John Oliver, meanwhile, pulled in viewership of 844,000 US homes for a March episode of his HBO show, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” For reference The Daily Show with Jon Stewart had 1 million viewers in 2003, and by the time Jon left the program was averaging 2.5 million viewers.
Along with removing relevant apps and blocking relevant Airdrop features coincidentally right during Hong Kong protests, with giving up iCloud infrastructure, etc. (are there more examples?), can’t help wondering how far their collaboration goes.
On one hand, it was a matter of time that Stewart’s new show would be cancelled if he had any integrity. On the other hand, the show was IMHO not at his previous level based on the first few episodes.
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Many active threads on this days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37950194
We don't need an army of hall monitors racing to be the first or loudest to proclaim why a title should be considered clickbait. It's become significantly more annoying than bad titles.