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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Yanking Jimmy Kimmel's show is a new low for free speech in America | Margaret Sullivan

Media guardrails have weakened as FCC threats and broadcaster owners pressured ABC/Disney and Nexstar to pull Jimmy Kimmel's show, demonstrating escalating regulatory influence over media.
fromwww.esquire.com
1 week ago

Jimmy Kimmel's Removal Has Sent Us Back to Cold-War-Era Censorship

The abrupt decision by the network, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company, came hours after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, assailed Mr. Kimmel and suggested that his regulatory agency might take action against ABC because of remarks the host made on his Monday telecast. The network did not explain its decision, but the sequence of events on Wednesday amounted to an extraordinary exertion of political pressure on a major broadcast network by the Trump administration.
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