Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Kulbert … Who is the next one that has been disturbed? | Mira Dunejan
Jimmy Kimmel, the host late at night, suspended his “indefinitely” offer from ABC on Wednesday after the Federal Communications Committee, the United States’ broadcast media organizer, threatened the television network.
The threats of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) came in retaliation for the comments made by Kimil in his presentation regarding the death of Charlie Kerk and the Trump administration’s response to it. “We have hit some of its lowest levels during the weekend, as a desperate Maga gang tried to describe this child who killed Charlie Kirk with anything else other than one of them and did everything in his power to score political points from him,” Kimmel started.
Kimmel then played a clip of Donald Trump’s comments after Kirk’s death. When a journalist asked Trump how he was standing after the death of his friend, the president replied: “I think he was very good. By the way, there, you see all trucks?
“This is not how an adult is sad about the killing of someone who called a friend,” Kimmel said. “Thus, the four -year -old is a golden fish.”
On a Righting podcast On Wednesday, Commission for the Federal Communications Committee, Brendan Car Project 2025, He said that monologue Kimmel – who was delivered a lot before the alleged motives of Kerk was known – was “sick” because his suggestion was that the shooter might be a follower of the Maga movement. He said: “It seems that he was worked by Jimmy Kimmel to play in that narration that this was somehow or a person of Republican motives. If this is what happened here with his behavior, this is really sick.” Cares went to Kirk’s praise effectively. “He was an amazing man.”
Moving to Kimmel and his broadcaster, Car said: “We will have treatments that we can look at.” He later said: “Frankly, when you see things like this – I mean, we can do this in an easy way or in a difficult way.”
Apparently, ABC, her mother company, Disney, decided to do this in an easy way: Kimmel’s show was announced a few hours after Car’s comments. Reporting Commercial publications He suggested that NexStar, a radio company that owns many stations that Air Kimmel, has been pushed to move from ABC after they said preventive that they would not broadcast Kimmel in response to the comments. Nexstar is located in the midst of a $ 6.2 billion merging process with Media Tegna, a deal, as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Committee, will have the ability to prevent it.
After ABC, when Carr was asked by CNN Media Brian Stelter if he had any new comment on Kimmel’s comment, Carr answered with GIF from the TV series The Office, where it represents two angry idiots, Michael and Dwight, dance.
What appears to be: an executive agency with the authority to organize special actors who threatened to take measures to punish speech and prevent more discourse from seeing in the future. A company to implement this oversight jumped in response to these threats. There is a word for this: Jawboning. When the government presses a third party to silence a letter he does not like, and the American Supreme Court He unanimously ruled It is an illegal violation of the first amendment – that is, state control.
The Trump administration has developed an intermittent campaign on the regime’s fighting speech since the president returned to power in January. Kimmel is not even the first late night host to be rejected under the pressure of the agency: Stephen Colbert, the late show host, has canceled his program by CBS just two weeks after the Trump network paid a great settlement to end a trivial defamation lawsuit against him. But the campaign against Trump’s fighting speech accelerated the days of Kirk’s killing. on monday, JD Vance She hosted an episode of PodCast Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show, and the listeners told that if they saw a person criticizing Kirk, they must “call the employer.”
The media has always been a risky industry, as employers and workers alike face minimal margins and maximum scrutiny. Trump has long used a mixture of the media from the public vision and exposure to business on his own interest, as he covers his wrongful actions, misunderstanding and malice as a lie and encourages his followers in their feelings anti -election reflections on “educated cadres in general”.
More and more of the largest media companies in the American market are now controlled by billionaires who are Trump’s ideological allies: Elon Musk owns X; The right -wing family is set to get Paramount/Skydance; Only this week, Trump has announced a tiktok deal for his right -walled billionaire billionaire Mark Andresson and Larry Ellson.
With some noble exceptions, large media companies that are still generally independent of Trump’s pressure, which apparently make what is customary and arbitrary options either for resistance or surrender depending on the administration’s whims. One thinks of the Los Angeles Times, who withdrew her support for Kamala Harris from the 2024 presidential elections in the direction of Patrick Sun Chiong, the billionaire owner of the paper. One also believes, from the Washington Post, where the cleansing of the newsroom, the opinion office and the editorial axis came towards promoting “free markets and individual freedoms” in place of the logo that the paper was adopted during the first Trump administration: “Democracy dies in the dark.” It is really very dark.
When the system can use the force of the law to punish the speech because it does not like the content of this speech, the speech is not free.
When media companies change the editing strategies, not in service to their readers, but for fear of the repercussions of the government and its allies, the press is not free. When sincere accounting for Kirk’s life leads to comedians, journalists, the book of columns in opinion, political commentators and sports writers, they lose their jobs at the request of government actors and in the service of the interests of the system, the truth is not free.
It has become dangerous-towards a variable-to tell the truth about the Trump regime, or even only to say the facts that the unbearable system finds. Their dream is an insecure child’s dream: one of the absolute strength. They want to judge us for the malicious charge, distribute disappointments and mercy to their allies and sycophants, distribute and encourage penalties to those who bother them. They want to control what is allowed to say, what is allowed to know it. They want to control what is allowed to laugh – for sure, never.
In the era of absolute property, European countries often had laws on books that prohibit the king’s mockery. The so -called Lèse-majesté Laws made betrayal of insulting the “dignity” of sovereignty. The Trump administration seems to have taken this principle – that mockery is dangerous and widening – and expands it, which expands the protective circle of the king’s authority abroad to include all its allies as well.
During the Trump era, it is not Trump himself who should not make fun of it, but also anyone agreed to by Trump or finds it useful, or needs to pretend to love. It is a sign of the deep insecurity of the regime and the feeling of their weakness, which they believe need this force, and that they believe that they cannot bear the laughter of their people. But even if Trump succeeds in the campaign of repression to speak, it appears that he is unlikely to effectively control the public’s mockery of himself and his allies. It will be impossible to ban jokes about these people; They are very ridiculous.