Apple TV+ Show 'The Problem With Jon Stewart' Reportedly Canceled

[reyesmac]

Did he want to bite the hand that fed him? News and information are businesses now. Truth didn't take a back seat, it got left at the station long ago by these news corporations.

 

[tennisproha]

Since Apple’s a studio now I guess they can censor content but that definitely won’t help them grow their subscriber base.

Apple is perfectly positioned to take over the space held by HBO now that AT&T drove it into the ground with MAX. But that’s never gonna happen with Tim Apple at the helm.

 

[Mansu944]

I am NO fan of Jon Stewart, but god forbid you talk bad about China....

 

[fenderbass146]

You are the first person to disagree with the assessment so far. You do realise what it means right?

The internet community as a whole is to the left, so to them, a typical run-of-the-mill liberal iappears as a centrist. Yea, that's exactly what that means. Look I respect Jon a lot even though I disagree with him politically, but to say he is a centrist is silly.

 

[macfacts]

QuickTime isn’t a delivery platform - it’s a bunch of file formats (quite successful as it became a foundation for widely used MP4 format) + various software to work with them. It’s not a streaming service like Apple Music or Netflix.

Before YouTube, _all_ movie trailers were on Apple's QuickTime site.

 

[fenderbass146]

Jon called out Obama covering up the Flint water, just like he called out Bush for Iraq WMDs. He leans left in the sense he’s a “progressive” in many ways, but he is far from partisan. He consistently calls out abuses of power on both sides, and is a voice of the everyday people.

So do I, calling out people on your own side of the aisle doesn't make you a centrist. Just means you have a brain. I do the same things as well, but I'm clearly on the right just like Jon is clearly on the left of the political scale...he is in no way a centrist. Same for someone like Bill Maher, even though he is reasonable, sane, be critical of both sides, he is still on the left.

 

[JamesHolden]

I wish everyone wasn't so distracted by this happening to Jon Stewart. The story here is that China's influence and the frequency at which they are pulling strings like this on US/western companies should be concerning. It's probably the story that Jon was working on that got their attention. China's "problems" with Taiwan, human rights and their foray into genocide with the Uyghur will one day come to a head. If anyone thinks all these little incidents are not attempts to wrap their tentacles around western media and interests as tightly as possible before one of those problems explodes, you need to think again. They've figured out the power to keep America off their back is to get our executive's answer to any government/military response to be "Yeah, but our profits though..."

China has been very successful in forcing us to reveal just how morally bankrupt we really are in the "free" world. We talk a good game about rights and all that stuff...but in the end the only thing that matters is $$$. Empowering China the way the western corporations have for the past several decades, completely compromising our values in exchange for cheap crap, will go down as one of the greatest blunders in human history.

 

[BaldiMac]

The internet community as a whole is to the left, so to them, a typical run-of-the-mill liberal iappears as a centrist. Yea, that's exactly what that means. Look I respect Jon a lot even though I disagree with him politically, but to say he is a centrist is silly.

So do I, calling out people on your own side of the aisle doesn't make you a centrist. Just means you have a brain. I do the same things as well, but I'm clearly on the right just like Jon is clearly on the left of the political scale...he is in no way a centrist. Same for someone like Bill Maher, even though he is reasonable, sane, be critical of both sides, he is still on the left.

Depends on what you mean by centrist. If you mean some mythical midpoint between Republican and Democrat in the US, then you are probably right. But that ignores that the mainstream Democratic Party would be considered centrist compared across first-world democracies.

 

[HMI]

Jon is perhaps the best overall interviewer on any topic today. And you flushed his show?!

Terrible move Apple!

If Apple can’t stand up to a Jon Stewart exposé then it is possibly on the wrong side of the topic.

Why not cancel the morning show. That one is full of victimization mentality and is preachy as H*ll. But I guess it’s okay if you agree with those politics. I love shows about the tv/film industry, but d*mn is this show one-sided. Even the West Wing - a show about politics - is more even-keeled and fair and respectful to different opinions.

 

[Abazigal]

There is of course, always the possibility that the show was cancelled due to poor ratings and this is nothing more than an attempt by disgruntled showrunners to vilify Apple. "My show didn't suck! It's because Apple didn't want to risk angering China!"

 

[alexandr]

Winnie the Pooh is censored in China because people said he looks like Xi, so yeah, the CCP would care about Jon Stewart doing an episode on China.

'Cause he looks like Winnie the Pooh?

 

[dwsolberg]

The key word is China. Anyone who criticizes China better not rely on it for revenue. That's the danger of building and selling devices there.

 

[R2DHue]

"Centrist sensibilities"
LOL. I needed that. Been rough day at work.

Some would say he got “Tuckered.”

You can’t question U.S. spending on foreign wars or question science or what pharmaceutical companies say or you’ll be taken off the air.

(But Stephen Colbert! Now, he “knows what time it is”! He knows how to keep his job!)

 

[steve333]

Apple under Tim Cook has turned into a disgrace.

 

[R2DHue]

'Cause he looks like Winnie the Pooh?

Just the latest example of South Part affecting the entire globe, that’s all…

 

[spcopsmac21]

If true you have to wonder what topics Jon Stewart was going to cover.

Maybe someone else (YouTube? Netflix?) could pick up the show if it gets cancelled.

John is now going to roast apple like a pig along with china. On his own show on a bigger platform with his own money. Apple can get ****ed.
I use their products but everyone needs to know Apple is a marketing powerhouse who makes descent products. They are here to make money. They could care less about any of us.

 

[R2DHue]

John is now going to roast apple like a pig along with china. On his own show on a bigger platform with his own money. Apple can get ****ed.
I use their products but everyone needs to know Apple is a marketing powerhouse who makes descent products. They are here to make money. They could care less about any of us.

IDK about his ratings, but if Jon Stewart was in any way critical of China — there's your answer. ☭
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Apple has too much riding on China not to obey Winnie the Pooh’s commands.

 

[svish]

Very surprised to hear that the show is cancelled.

 

[Powerbooky]

I found it... Go to season 1, episode 3 at timecode 09'13"... 😄

 

[coolkid93]

Anyway moving on, now let’s cancel Jimmy and Steven’s shows

 

[falainber]

There is of course, always the possibility that the show was cancelled due to poor ratings and this is nothing more than an attempt by disgruntled showrunners to vilify Apple. "My show didn't suck! It's because Apple didn't want to risk angering China!"

Finally, you found one Apple product that sucks.

 

[Abazigal]

Finally, you found one Apple product that sucks.

If a show that’s part of a “product” can be considered a “product” in and of itself.

 

[JamesHolden]

There is of course, always the possibility that the show was cancelled due to poor ratings and this is nothing more than an attempt by disgruntled showrunners to vilify Apple. "My show didn't suck! It's because Apple didn't want to risk angering China!"

Lol. Every show on Apple TV+ has poor ratings compared to every other streaming service. I seriously doubt that ratings was John Stewart's problem. We've seen how Apple kowtows to China again and again and again. This is likely yet another example of Apple's pathetic subservience to the CCP.

 

[McG2k1]

I don’t think anyone is sad to see late night tv or political tv die.

 

[hirshnoc]

WTF?! I have tickets to see the first episode taping on November 14!!!

I mean I saw the taping of the last episode of Season 2, but still...this is insane. And inane.