FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez criticized FCC actions targeting The Walt Disney Company and ABC, calling them straight-up censorship and an assault on the First Amendment. She said the FCC ordered eight ABC-owned TV stations to file early license renewal requests in April, soon after Trump called for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel. Gomez described the move as an unprecedented violation by the FCC. She also accused Paramount of capitulating to the Trump administration. Gomez said she sent a letter to Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro urging him not to cave, and she asserted that the law and the First Amendment are on Disney’s side. She linked the actions to FCC investigations into Disney’s DEI practices and ABC’s moderation of a 2024 presidential debate.
"Gomez went off during an interview on MS NOW's The Weeknight on Friday. This administration has been engaged in a campaign of censorship and control, and Disney has been a real target of this administration because it's actually not capitulating, Gomez said. Unlike CBS or Paramount, the parent company of where [Stephen] Colbert was, co-host Symone Sanders Townsend chimed in. Exactly, Gomez affirmed."
"Gomez then said it was a direct assault on the First Amendment when the FCC ordered eight ABC-owned TV stations to file early license renewal requests in April, which came soon after Trump called for ABC to fire the seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel. The commissioner told MS NOW it was an unprecedented violation by her agency. She then accused Paramount of capitulating to the Trump administration, before patting herself on the back for sending a letter to Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro earlier this month and urging him not to cave."
"I wanted to call out all the actions that this FCC is taking against it and to have them understand that the law is on their side. The First Amendment is on their side, Gomez said. Because what this is is straight- up censorship. And nobody should like having the free press and our our First Amendment rights trampled upon by one entity."
"As Mediaite's David Gilmour wrote, that letter was sent following a series of FCC investigations into Disney's DEI practices and ABC, as well as the FCC's decision to revive a complaint about ABC's moderation of a 2024 presidential debate between Trump and then-Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris."
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