Members of the Writers Guild of America, including notable figures like Spike Lee and Adam McKay, signed a letter condemning the Trump's administration's actions that threaten free speech. The letter highlights Trump’s lawsuits against news organizations, including a $16 million settlement with Paramount. It criticizes the collaboration of Republicans to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and details the FCC's conditional approval of media mergers. The letter emphasizes the importance of free expression and asserts that the president should not dictate media content.
The letter, a combined effort from the WGA East and West branches, cites the US president's baseless lawsuits against news organizations that have published stories he does not like and leveraged them into payoffs.
Additionally, the letter blasts Republicans in Congress who collaborated with the Trump administration to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in order to silence PBS and NPR.
The letter expresses that the FCC, led by Trump-appointed chair Brendan Carr, conditioned its approval of the Skydance-Paramount merger on assurances that CBS would make significant changes to its journalism and entertainment programming.
These are un-American attempts to restrict the kinds of stories and jokes that may be told, to silence criticism and dissent.
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