Under the pressure of the Federal Communications Commission, the sudden suspension of the ABC of the Talk Show’s host Jimmy Kimmel has performed the latest power to US President Donald Trump to turn media, entertainment and digital platforms at his own will, as he uses political pressure to mute criticisms and punishes the institutions that he looks against him.
After Kimmel’s remarks about the killer, accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the move shocked American media and entertainment industries and intensified free-sputum fear as the FCC Chair Brendon car appointed by Trump threatened to cancel a broadcast license from the stations he called a “garbage”.
Major media and tech companies are now controlled by Trump supporters or billionaire business leaders who stood behind Trump during their inauguration, donated to their inaugural fund, or visited the White House Asar gifts. Bill billionaire is part of investors with a union of investors with the inner track to control the American operation of the Oracle Video-Shireing platform Tikok.
This week, the Trump administration announced that it had agreed to a structure for a deal with China, which would allow the sale of American assets of Ticketkok to continue to operate in CBS, Meta platforms, and editorial pages of the Washington Posts and Los Angeles Times, which have made editorial or operational transformations after re -operations.
“The United States has a continuous legend for the rights of our major media in the United States,” said Victor Picard, a professor of media policy and political economy at Anenenburg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. “I hope to see it more. There is no retaliation against it.”
After Trump’s re-election, it is a second time on Wednesday night that ABC’s original company Walt Disney has taken action in response to the on-air comments. In December, ABC News agreed to give $ 15 million to Trump’s President’s Library to settle a trump case, Trump filed on the comment that anchor George Stephanopolos, the author e. The sexual abuse claims brought by Jean Carol against Trump.
“They are all frightened,” Steve Croft said, who was a long -time “60 minutes” correspondent, especially citing night broadcast news. “The most intimidation of me about this administration is that this is a ventilative mindset, to go after its enemies. And I think they are clearly going after news people. It is at the top of their list.”
Disney refused to comment.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said that Trump supports free speech and an internet without sensor.
“The terrible product of Jimmy Kimmel is not a free speech problem; this is a talent problem,” he said.
The pressure on traditional media by the Conservatives successfully comes back to the digital platforms to leave the content moderation, which they painted as biased. Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, which banned Trump for “provoking violence” after the 6 January 2021 riots at the US Capital, the Pand promised to restore the “free speech” on the stage. Named X, Musk, the Mask ended its trust and safety team in favor of a system that allows its users to post fact-locals, and restore the accounts of conservators who had previously violated Twitter policies.
According to research from the University of Queensland, the content on the stage has become more correct since the acquisition. The meta platforms dissolved their third-party fact-stores program in the United States, affecting Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
The company selected Dana White, a trump colleague and the chief executive of the ultimat fighting championship, for its board, and elevated the major Republican Policy Executive Joel Coupon as Head of Global Affairs.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in January, “We have reached a point where it is a lot of mistakes and a lot of censorship. It’s time to bring our roots back around free expression.”
Beyond the broadcast license, the media merger involving local broadcasters requires the blessings of the FCC. David Ellison, son of Larry Alison, a long -time trump supporter, helped secure regulatory approval to buy paramounts for his company’s Skydance Media, with the promise that the CBS network would reflect the “diverse ideological approach” of the American audience. Prior to the deal, Paramount paid $ 16 million to settle the 2024 trial, Trump filed in an “60 minute” interview with former Vice President Kamla Harris, claiming that he claimed that he gave a distorted scene about his opponent for the White House.
The FCC has stated that the settlement and regulator reviews were unrelated. Last week, the company, former president and CEO of Conservative Hudson Institute, its new Lokpal, Kenneth R. Announced the appointment of Venstein.
Paramount is reported to acquire Free Press and bring the founder Bari Weiss in the role of a leadership in CBS News. Opinion Writer of the former New York Times challenged what she sees as Eliberal Left and “Vokism”, challenging a national follow. Now the Paramount Warner Brothers Discovery is preparing a bid to acquire the house for CNN, while Larry Alison’s cloud is playing to buy veteran Oracle Ticketkok, which will install a major communication equipment that reaches 170 million Americans in the hands of a conservative billionaire.
When asked about the allegations of a correct inclination in CBS, a spokesperson of the parents-Company Paramount directed the previous comments of CEO David Alison about the political neutrality of the network. “We are first an entertainment company,” Alison has said. “Everyone – left, right, young, old – its audience. I am not in a position to give political statements about anything.”
The social media was trying to find a way to avoid the social media backlash against Disney Kimmel’s comments, when FCC’s Carr enhanced the heat.
The regulator said Kimmel misled the audience about the affiliation of the alleged shooter with Trump’s Make America Great Again Movement, and urged to push local stations back, which FCC extended the possibility of canceling the broadcast license of local television stations, which did not comply.
“We can do it in an easy way or difficult way,” Carr said on Wednesday in an interview with conservative podcaster Beni Johnson.
The ABC pulled Kimmel into the air after Nexstar Media Group, the biggest owner of broadcasting stations in the US, decided to present the show in view of his comments about Kirk. Sinklair, the country’s largest owner of ABC-Siddha TV stations, followed the suit.
Several ABC colleagues ran a Charlie Kirk special in the regular time slot of Kimmel on Friday. Nexstar will require FCC approval to meet the 6.2 billion $ 6.2 billion acquisition of the owner of 64 television stations and more than the agency’s regulatory cap on the station ownership.
Decision to determine “Jimmy Kimmel Live”! ” The senior executive team was unilaterally created by the senior executive team at Nexstar, “The company’s Chief Communications Officer Gary Weetman said. And he had no communication with the FCC or any government agency before taking this decision.”
Trump has used courts to attack ineffective coverage at major media outlets. He has filed nine media related civil suits since 2020, including a defamation suit of $ 15 billion against the New York Times and a $ 10 billion case against the Publisher Penguin Random House and Wall Street Journal in July this week.
The magazine has said that the lawsuit is qualified. The Times stated that Trump’s trial has no legitimate legal claims and is an attempt to discourage and discourage independent reporting. A federal judge on Friday hit the Times trial on his content, stating that a complaint is “not a public platform for vituparia and interactive” or “a protected platform to rage against an opponent” and gave Trump 28 days to file a revised complaint.
The first amendment scholars look at the steps taken together, as a comprehensive effort to suppress free speech in the US. Jamil Jafar, Executive Director of the Night First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said in a statement, “The Trump administration is increasing rapidly in misuse of government power to silence its critics.”
Even some conservatives have targeted Kirk critics, others have expressed concern about the use of government power to suppress speech.
“During the Biden administration, the conservatives made the correct complaint when the government went after his speech,” said David Insra, “a partner for free expression and technology at the Cato Institute.” “But now the Trump administration is using many arguments to justify sensorship.”