... suspension. "These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead." Those remarks set a backlash in motion, with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz saying that Carr acted like "a mafioso." Hundreds of entertainment luminaries ...
... way he exerts power, and this I guess is part and parcel of that, is through intimidation. What you saw happen with Jimmy Kimmel and the FCC, that wasn't actually using any real levers of power. It was just using the threat of the use of levers of power.
... said. “These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” The suspension also happened at a time when the late night landscape is shifting. CBS announced the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show ...
... to defend and preserve our constitutionally protected rights" in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension. WATCH: Kimmel suspension and self-censorship set dangerous precedent, FCC commissioner says More than 430 movie, TV and stage stars as well as comedians, directors and writers added their names to an open letter ...
... dollars. A federal judge in Florida tossed out Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times on Friday. Jimmy Kimmel ouster and FCC warning Perhaps the most headline-grabbing situation involves ABC's indefinite suspension Wednesday of veteran comic Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show. What he ...
... And the S&P 500 closed out its sixth positive week in less than two months. Still to come on the "News Hour": an FCC commissioner weighs in on the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel; David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart give their analysis on the week's ...
Jonathan Capehart: Yes. Yes, I mean, how could it not be, and especially when -- and I want to use Brendan Carr, a tweet from February of 2019. He wrote: "Should the government censor speech it doesn't like? Of course not. The FCC does not have a roving mandate to ...
... fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like” — and that media companies needed to stand up to the “government coercion” rather than capitulate to it.FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, a Biden administration appointee, wrote in a social media post that, “We cannot allow an inexcusable act of political violence to ...
Here's what he had to say about Trump and the FCC's actions here. Ilya Somin, George Mason University: Trump is definitely abusing the power of the FCC. Whatever other authority it might legitimately have, it does not have the power to force stations to take people off the ...
... Trump said. “They’re getting a license, I think maybe their license should be taken away. It’s up to Brendan Carr.” Carr is the FCC chairman whose threats against ABC came before the network suspended comedian Jimmy Kimmel after his joke about Trump and Charlie Kirk. Trump called Carr ...
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