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[Aeson]

CBS must have thought Colbert was still a good bet to make them money.

For an advocate of free speech and captalism you sure don’t seem to like how either works....

[rah]

Aeson
Did you even watch the show? I have many times and it was really tame and still mostly respectful. It just shows the bias of the business. You can call the president an orangutan as long as he's a republican. (as funny as I usually find it) Everyone makes fun of FOX for it's bias but have no problem trashing Trump at every turn. It used to be better than that.

[Kidlicious]

The line they both crossed is saying something their boss thought was bad for the bottom line.

And what about Colbert's "Johnson holder" joke? That's literally putting down homosexuals.

[Aeson]

While I'll concede that Roaseanne's comment was on the racist side, Tim's never were. He just did some tame Obama jokes. 20 time tamer than most of the Trump Jokes. So if his jokes were over the line than SNL and a host of other shows should be cancelled. (just plain silly)

The line they both crossed is saying something their boss thought was bad for the bottom line.

[Aeson]

Sure, but I suspect these decisions are often made from a place of extreme risk aversion. Media companies often don't know exactly which outrage will result in real damage to the bottom line (something something viral social media), but they know it's happened in the past. So they're looking at the expected utility of dropping/keeping problematic employees. If most of the time this blows over, but every once in awhile it doesn't and the company gets slammed, this is a hard calculation to make.

Ideally everyone gets to determine the level of risk they are willing to accept. I don’t see a problem here?

[rah]

Tim and Roseanne crossed THAT line

While I'll concede that Roaseanne's comment was on the racist side, Tim's never were. He just did some tame Obama jokes. 20 time tamer than most of the Trump Jokes. So if his jokes were over the line than SNL and a host of other shows should be cancelled. (just plain silly)

[Proteus_MST]

The show is called Rosanne. It's nothing without her. ABCs loss. But America's loss too.

While "Two and a half men" didn't bear Charlies name in its title, there was also the false belief (especially by Charlie Sheen himself),
that the show would die without him (no surprise, considering the room he took in the show).
Well, the show ran for 4 additional years (=seasons) after Charlie was fired

(Cannot comment on whether this would be true for Roseanne, as well ... not one of the shows I watch)

[ZEE]

What exactly did she do? Something off-set? Is she the writer/director of the show as well and is therefore blamed for all the content?

I did not read all the above posts carefully, TBH. Age is slowing me down at alarming rates.

[Lorizael]

Free market ... you cost your boss more than you bring in, you get canned. Tim and Roseanne crossed THAT line. There’s countless ways to do that in show business, which is why the vast vast majority of us don’t have shows.

Sure, but I suspect these decisions are often made from a place of extreme risk aversion. Media companies often don't know exactly which outrage will result in real damage to the bottom line (something something viral social media), but they know it's happened in the past. So they're looking at the expected utility of dropping/keeping problematic employees. If most of the time this blows over, but every once in awhile it doesn't and the company gets slammed, this is a hard calculation to make.

[Uncle Sparky]

Or use the same standard with a certain PotUS who shall remain nameless...

[Aeson]

Funny that Kid bemoans Roseanne getting axed but hopes Netflix is destroyed for having Obama.

[Aeson]

Free market ... you cost your boss more than you bring in, you get canned. Tim and Roseanne crossed THAT line. There’s countless ways to do that in show business, which is why the vast vast majority of us don’t have shows.

[Kidlicious]

The show is called Rosanne. It's nothing without her. ABCs loss. But America's loss too.

[Proteus_MST]

I never thought Roseanne was funny and she's probably at least a little bit racist, but firing people because they say dumb things is a trend I wish would go away.

It definitely is a bad thing as it doesn't only affect Roseanne alone, but also the whole crew which worked on the series ... who are all, from one day to the other, jobless.
May have been better to find a solution like in "Two and a half men" .... where just Charlie Sheen was fired and the series continued without him, with Ashton Kutcher replacing him in the first season that startetd totally without Charlie

[Dinner]

http://www.politifact.com/missouri/statements/2017/dec/24/jason-smith/no-solid-evidence-tax-cuts-created-jobs/

wrt tax cuts supposedly creating jobs... There is virtually no evidence for it especially with tax cuts for the rich. The biggest multiplier effect comes from putting money in the hands of people who will spend it but the rich mostly save it so there is very little relation between more jobs and tax cuts for the rich. Yet Republicans are only interested in tax cuts for their donor class because that is where their bribes come from.