"It's very bad. There's no other way to put it. It's very bad when American regulators call on American media companies to shut down a TV show they don't like. And it's very bad when American media companies follow those demands. Which, of course, is what happened on Wednesday. Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show hours after Brendan Carr, Donald Trump's pick to head the Federal Communications Commission, told Disney to " take action, frankly, on Kimmel" because Kimmel had made a joke about Trump supporters and Charlie Kirk."
""We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr said in an interview with right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. After Kimmel's suspension, Carr sent me a statement praising Nexstar in particular. Then he went on Fox News, where he complained about late-night hosts in general: "They went from being court jesters that would make fun of everybody in power to being court clerics and enforcing a very narrow political ideology.""
A Federal Communications Commission pick urged Disney and station owners to take action against Jimmy Kimmel after a joke about Trump supporters and Charlie Kirk. Nexstar and Sinclair announced they would not carry Kimmel before Disney suspended the late-night show. The regulator explicitly threatened consequences if media companies did not comply, saying, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way." The intervention by a government official in private media decisions raises concerns about censorship, regulatory coercion, and the chilling effect on journalistic and comedic expression eight months into the second Trump presidency.
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