"Tuesday was the third or fourth time when Barr's tweets had presented a problem for ABC"

— The view inside Disney was that Tuesday was the third or fourth time when Barr’s tweets had presented a problem for ABC… AND that this time was by far the worst yet…

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— Inside ABC, there’s now a sense of PRIDE in how quickly this controversy was contained… but there’s also some second-guessing about why the network got back in business with Barr to begin with…

— Is the cancellation a rare case of morals over money, people over profits? Yes, to some degree… But if ABC had sanctioned Barr and kept the show on the fall schedule, advertisers likely would have shunned the show…

— It’s not just ABC that’s pulling the plug: The outlets carrying “Roseanne” repeats, like Hulu and the Paramount Network, are pulling the show too…

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