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Disney's ABC says it will take Jimmy Kimmel Live! off its schedule “indefinitely” after Nexstar said its ABC affiliates would pre-empt airings of the program — Disney's ABC said it would take Jimmy Kimmel's popular late-night show off its schedule “indefinitely” …
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Brendan Carr / @brendancarrfcc: I want to thank Nexstar for doing the right thing. Local broadcasters have an obligation to serve the public interest. While this may be an unprecedented decision, it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community
Bill Bradley / Adweek: Jimmy Kimmel Pulled by ABC Following Nexstar Stance on Host's Charlie Kirk Comments
Nexstar Media Group, Inc.: Nexstar ABC Affiliates To Preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Indefinitely Beginning Tonight
Josef Adalian / Vulture: ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: 'That's Not What He Said!' CNN Anchor Shuts Down Trump Ally Over Jimmy Kimmel-Charlie Kirk Rant
James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter: FCC Chair Threatens Jimmy Kimmel Over Charlie Kirk Monologue Comments; ABC Pulls Show
Anita Chabria / Los Angeles Times: Wake up, Los Angeles. We are all Jimmy Kimmel
Constance Grady / Vox: How Jimmy Kimmel became Trump's nemesis
Marcos Bretón / Santa Rosa Press-Democrat: Breton: In yanking Jimmy Kimmel, ABC crossed a dangerous line
Dylan Gwinn / Breitbart: Stephen A. Smith Goes After Kimmel Over Kirk Comments: 'Wasn't Anything Funny About That'
Isabel Santos / @isabelsantos.bsky.social: ABC and Disney yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live! despite executives saying he didn't cross a line, bowing to looming Trump administration threats—showing fear, not judgment, dictated the move. — www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/ tv... [image]
Jennifer Lenhart / National Enquirer: Crew Removes Items From Jimmy Kimmel's LA Studio After His Show Is Taken Off Air: See The Pics
Sinclair, Inc: Sinclair Says Kimmel Suspension is Not Enough, Calls on FCC and ABC to Take Additional Action
Rebecca Keegan / NBC News: Disney's ABC pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ after FCC chair criticizes the host's Charlie Kirk comments
Benny Johnson / @bennyjohnson: This is what got Kimmel fired. Right here. Watch. It's called soft power. The Left uses it all the time. Thanks to President Trump, the Right has learned how to wield power as well. Brendan Carr is the most consequential FCC Chairman in American History [video]
David Bauder / Associated Press: ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk's death
JD Vance / @jdvance: Everyone please congratulate @marcorubio, the new host of ABC's late night show!
Joe Flint / @jbflint: BREAKNG: Disney's ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely after late night host's recent remarks about Charlie Kirk. Move comes as ABC affiliate groups told network they would be dropping the host.
George Winslow / TV Tech: UPDATED: ABC Takes ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Off the Air Indefinitely
Chris Mautner / PennLive: How long will Jimmy Kimmel be off the air? Here's what we know
Kimberlee Speakman / People: Who Made the Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! from Air? Find Out Which Execs at Disney Made the Call: Reports
Erich Richter / New York Post: Dave Portnoy doubles down on ‘unique’ Jimmy Kimmel take as show pulled off the air
Conor Murray / Forbes: Kimmel's Charlie Kirk Monologues Surge In Viewership After Suspension—As ABC Leaves Up Video Clips
Daniel Trainor / Us Weekly: Barstool's Dave Portnoy Supports ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Being Pulled: ‘Consequences for Your Actions’
Nick Riccardo / LateNighter: Sinclair Warned ABC It Planned to Drop Kimmel, Says Suspension ‘Not Enough’
Rick van Leuven / Rick van Leuven on LinkedIn: ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel show over Charlie Kirk comments https://lnkd.in/... WE ARE IN FULL BLOWN FASCISM. Kimmel didn't say anything negative about Kirk, only about the fascist MAGA regime. …
Tamantha Ryan / Page Six: Jimmy Kimmel looking to get ‘out of his contract’ with ABC after talk show suspended over Charlie Kirk remarks: report
Ben Kew / The Gateway Pundit: Sen. Chuck Schumer Says Jimmy Kimmel Must Stay on Air to Save Democracy — Then Urges Him to Sue Disney
Charlton Allen / americanthinker.com: Jimmy Kimmel Bye! Off the air and out of excuses
Tyler Johnson / The Hollywood Gossip: Jimmy Kimmel Pulled From Air: Celebrities React to ABC's Shocking Decision
Senator Ron Wyden / @wyden.senate.gov: Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It's a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you'll lose your job or worse.
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel's band releases a statement calling the FCC's pressure on Disney “state censorship.” [image]
Congressman Herb Conaway / @repherbconaway.bsky.social: Like Kirk, Kimmel had the right to share his opinions-even if you find them offensive. — The problem with taking Kimmel off air has nothing to do with what he said. Trump put political pressure on ABC to cancel his show. — It's not cancel culture. It's a muzzle on speech that this admin doesn't like.
Dave Portnoy / @stoolpresidente: With Kimmel getting canned I'm seeing lots of people talking about the hypocrisy of cancel culture. To me Cancel culture is when people go out of their way to dig up old tweets, videos etc looking for dirt on somebody they don't like in an effort to get them fired. Like if
Gary Sargent / Gary Sargent on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/... So, what are everyone's thoughts on this one? Again, threats and pressure from DJT's team, which preaches free speech but only if it meets their criteria. …
Cliff Pinckard / Plain Dealer: ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel's show after criticism from affiliate owner, FCC head over Charlie Kirk comments
Congressman Glenn Ivey / @ivey.house.gov: ABC's decision to cancel Jimmy Kimmel Live, combined with the FCC's heavy-handed censorship, is an alarming attack on free speech and artistic expression. The government should never decide which voices get heard and which get silenced. — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Matt Birchler / @matt_birchler@mastodon.social: Per this reporting, ABC execs didn't think Kimmel ever crossed a line, but they feared the federal government and changed their speech because of that fear. — You know, classic small government, free speech enthusiast shit...right? — https://www.rollingstone.com/ ... [image]
Thomas Pockrandt / @tho.bsky.social: Canceling TV shows doesn't silence people, it shifts them. Viewers move to YouTube, TikTok, podcasts, social media. Online voices are louder, more global, less filtered. That brings fresh perspectives.📱
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story: 'Authoritarian's dream': Trump official behind Kimmel firing exposed using his own words
Karrie Jacobs / @karrieurbanist.bsky.social: FCC chairman Brendan Carr was on a MAGA podcast when he made Mafia style threats ("we can do this the easy way or the hard way") regarding Jimmy Kimmel. — What kind of FCC chair appears on a show like that and then uses it to dismantle the First Amendment? — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b... …
Brian Steinberg / @bristei.bsky.social: Disney's L'Affaire Kimmel, from A to Z —Station owner Nexstar's move forced Disney's play —Late night's weaker economics make it hard to defend —Disney has been in similar straits, with Bill Maher in 2001 —Hollywood feels chill in re: free expression — variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Congresswoman Sara Jacobs / @sarajacobs.house.gov: This isn't cancel culture - it's state-sanctioned censorship. The President of the United States should know and respect that our First Amendment protects speech even if he doesn't agree with it. If Jimmy Kimmel can be fired, you can be too.
David Sims / The Atlantic: An Escalation in Every Way — Jimmy Kimmel's suspension from late-night is a chilling precedent …
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: Wall Street Journal: Disney is hoping to have “Jimmy Kimmel Live” back on the air in the next few days, a source told @jbflint. https://www.wsj.com/...
@call634-5789.bsky.social: COWARDS, Giving Fealty to NAZIS: ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel show off air ‘indefinitely’ over Charlie Kirk comments — www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/c...
Peter W / @wang.social: It's official, America: we live in a fascist regime now. And it's “constitution-loving, small government” Republicans who are bringing this kind of censorship, wrapped in the American flag. — www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/ ...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: I haven't seen anyone point out that Disney has a pending merger with Fubo, and that is being reviewed by Trump's Antitrust Division. However, state AGs - including Democrats - also have jurisdiction... [image]
Alex Edelman / @alexedelman: It's not that a company fired a comedian for saying something - it's that the US government explicitly pressured them to. There's no censorship equivalent, at least in my lifetime.
Bob Geiger / @bobgeiger.bsky.social: This is nothing but government censorship. — If you're still thinking it's exaggerating to say we're moving toward a real-life 'Handmaid's Tale'... think again. — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Mike Nellis / @mikenellis: Portnoy is missing the point here. If ABC, as Kimmel's employer, had an issue with what he said, that's one thing—but Trump and the FCC threatened to revoke their license if they didn't suspend him. That's what I'm upset about. It's an abuse of power, and if it happened to a
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi / @congressmanraja …: The Trump administration is using the levers of government to silence speech it doesn't like. Pushing Jimmy Kimmel off the air under FCC pressure is censorship, plain and simple—and it's a dangerous assault on the First Amendment. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Richard Blumenthal / @blumenthal.senate.gov: Jimmy Kimmel is off-the-air because of an unprecedented act of gov't censorship. The FCC has now proven that its sole mission is to be the speech police for Trump, punishing his perceived opponents & rewarding his cronies. Chair Carr has shown his true self: free speech fraud.
Emory / @emory@soc.kvet.ch: > “This is not complicated: Trump's FCC identified speech it did not like and threatened ABC with extreme reprisals,” union President Tino Gagliardi said in a statement Wednesday night. “This is state censorship. It's now happening in the United States of America, not some far-off country. …
Craig Nigrelli / Straight Arrow News: Deadly police shooting in PA, Trump praises Kimmel's suspension: Unbiased Updates, Sept. 18, 2025
Mr. Mads / @mrmads.bsky.social: Colbert, Kimmel and the future ex-hosts are not only cancelled because they said something The Tyrant doesn't like. — They do great research and present facts that the MSM are not touching. — This is what makes them dangerous. — #LateNight=RealNews — #Colbert — #Kimmel
Cooper Williamson / Blaze Media: The forces behind the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel
Nick Feik / @nickfeik.bsky.social: They may be smart and well-resourced, but the NY Times editorial staff sure aren't brave. — It wasn't the Kirk comments that got his show cancelled...
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: Obama on Kimmel: Trump admin taking cancel culture ‘to a new and dangerous level’
@spocko@mastodon.online: Here is the section that supposedly lead to #ABC taking #JimmyKimmel off the air. — Listen to what Kimmel says & then see how the #Trump admin characterized it (according an NBC story https://www.nbcnews.com/... ) — “During his monologue on Monday night, Kimmel raised the possibility that Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the killing, might have been a pro-Trump Republican.” …
Molly Sprayregen / LGBTQ Nation: Donald Trump tells blatant lie about why Jimmy Kimmel was kicked off the air
Nick Sortor / @nicksortor: 🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Disney's ABC is PULLING Jimmy Kimmel off-air nationwide effectively IMMEDIATELY and indefinitely following his remarks about Charlie Kirk's kiIIing, per WSJ This might be the END of Kimmel's career! 🔥 FAFO, you piece of trash. [image]
Amy Kuperinsky / New Jersey Online: Comedians, writers and celebrities react to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension at ABC. ‘What is happening to our country?’
Ian Mellul / @ianmellul: Charlie Kirk believed in free speech, something you guys are scared of clearly.
Benny Johnson / @bennyjohnson: Thank you CNN and Brian Stelter for melting down while admitting we ended Jimmy Kimmel's career today. We had FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on the show to announce investigations into ABC and Disney for letting Kimmel lie to millions about Charlie Kirk's assassination. Hours [video]
Benny Johnson / @bennyjohnson: BREAKING: President Trump tells NBC to cancel Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers following the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel. “Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. [image]
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni: ABC source says “no plans” to pull Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. At least not until @BrendanCarrFCC sees this tweet and asks that it be pulled.
Steve Anglesey / @sanglesey.bsky.social: JD Vance, Feb 2025: “In Britain, and across Europe, free speech I fear is in retreat. In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town and under Donald Trump's leadership we may disagree with your views but we will fight to defend your right to offer it.” — www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/ tv...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Brendan Carr killed the first amendment on constitution day
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: I'm sure Jimmy Kimmel will have a somber, measured take on this when he is un-muzzled
@lastpositivist.bsky.social: Just absolutely transparent use of state power to suppress speech, with the company basically deciding that favour at court and the commercial benefits it brings are worth more to them than any principle. Cowardly and disgusting. — variety.com/2025/tv/news...
@gerrylangford.bsky.social: When they accuse the UK of having a problem with free speech — variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Abid Rahman / The Hollywood Reporter: MAGA Pundits Revel In ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Suspension: “He Is Now Cancelled and Unemployed”
Samantha Whidden / Suggest: ABC Pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Indefinitely After His Remarks About Charlie Kirk Spark Outrage
Natasha Devon / @natashadevon.bsky.social: More news from the country lecturing us in the U.K. about how we apparently don't have freeze peach.... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Randahl Fink / @randahl@mastodon.social: Following CBS' cancellation of Stephen Colbert's late show, ABC has now suspended Jimmi Kimmel for saying things, Trump does not like. And the story is the same, both companies are in mergers which Trump can prevent, and suddenly they are cancelling their most popular hosts. …
Kees van der Leun / @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy: Kimmel, on his show: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” — Trump regime: We may sue ABC for that. …
Scott Nover / Scott Nover on LinkedIn: The Walt Disney Company's ABC has taken “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air following the host's comments about Charlie Kirk's shooter. …
Courtney Radsch, PhD / Courtney Radsch, PhD on LinkedIn: ABC's abrupt suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live just hours after FCC Chair Brendan Carr publicly threatened the network's license over Kimmel's …
RachelMarta / @rachel99marta.bsky.social: The abrupt decision by network, owned by Walt Disney Company, came hours after the chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr, assailed Mr. Kimmel & suggested that his regulatory agency might take action against ABC because of remarks the host made on his telecast — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b... …
Nardine Saad / BBC: Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments
@plumber4america.bsky.social: It goes deeper than this. CNBC and other outlets just reported on this: “Nexstar Media Group, which is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2 billion merger with Tegna, earlier said its ABC affiliates would pre-empt Kimmel's show because of his remarks.” www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/c...
Edward Champion / @edwardchampion@mastodon.social: ABC and Disney decided to obey in advance when it came to the preposterous indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show. There was nothing in Kimmel's remarks that constituted hate speech. There wasn't even a cue from the White House. They absolutely decided to capitulate to fascism. …
Lisa Kalayji / @LisaKalayji@infosec.exchange: In today's episode of Yikes, This Move Will Age Very Poorly: — “ABC's pre-emption of Kimmel's show is the latest dramatic example of a media figure suffering backlash for their public comments about Kirk's assassination. …
@tprophet@defcon.social: The regimes running Russia and Turkey made sure there were no opposition voices in the media, too. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Erik Jonker / @ErikJonker@mastodon.social: If you read what Jimmy Kimmel actually said...this is free speech in any democracy in the western world, his comments weren't even hateful or inciting. The USA is transforming into a fascist state before our eyes. — https://www.cnbc.com/... #jimmykimmel #trump #fascism #freespeech
@Nonilex@masto.ai: This is getting ridiculous — #ABC takes #JimmyKimmel off the air over remarks on #CharlieKirk killing —
The decision to indefinitely preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” follows backlash to comments he made about the conservative influencer's death. …
AkaSci / @AkaSci@fosstodon.org: Jimmy Kimmel gets cancelled. — For saying this - ""We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it. …
Senator Chris Van Hollen / @vanhollen.senate.gov: Trump and his cronies are using blatant government coercion to suppress speech they don't like — a gross violation of the 1st Amendment. Shame on ABC for caving to political blackmail. — We must stand with those who resist the bullies and call out those who appease them. NO KINGS.
Aaron / @hosford42@techhub.social: https://www.nytimes.com/... I think it's safe to say, we no longer have freedom of speech here in the US. Actually, maybe it's not so safe to say that.
@gopjesus.bsky.social: I'm old enough to remember when the Walt Disney Company stood up to MAGA fascists like DeSantis. — This is a TOTAL SURRENDER to MAGA's cancel culture! — Sad! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Sascha Meinrath / @saschameinrath.bsky.social: So let's be clear — the US government's official communications agency is actively censoring a comedy show. When we talk about the dangers of government censorship, *this* is what it looks like: — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Karl Bode / @karlbode.com: Elsewhere, like at Hollywood Reporter, you have to wade through paragraphs of quoting republicans in good faith before the push is questioned by anybody — I don't know what this kind of stuff is but it's not journalism. It's some toothless gruel stripped of all flavor, insight, courage, and context
Karl Bode / @karlbode.com: The FCC boss abused government power and the merger approval process to censor a comedian critical of the president, but media trade mags are so utterly useless you'd never understand that reading their coverage
Joanne Rossi / Joanne Rossi on LinkedIn: Disney suspends The Jimmy Kimmel show indefinitely after he lies about Charlie Kirk's shooter's political affiliation. Has DISNEY found their way back to sanity finally? …
April Ajoy / @aprilajoy@threads.com: So Jimmy Kimmel gets removed indefinitely for suggesting the shooter is MAGA, but Brian Kilmeade suggested killing homeless people on Fox News and still has his job?
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: ABC drops ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ indefinitely over host's Charlie Kirk remarks
@jaketapper.bsky.social: 7) “...Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time” — www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-abc-...
Mark Gongloff / @markgongloff.bsky.social: Canaries just dropping left and right in this coal mine — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Daril Fannin / Daril Fannin on LinkedIn: A few years ago I co-wrote a pilot with Jimmy Kimmel. I saw firsthand the sharp wit, curiosity, and fearlessness that have defined his career. …
Jennifer Konfrst / @konfrst.bsky.social: The President of the United States just forced a popular comedian off the air because he couldn't handle getting criticized. Free speech belongs to all of us. — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
TvmoJoe / @tvmojoe.bsky.social: NEW: I've updated my story to include details on the anatomy of the campaign against Kimmel (yes, Fox News and Benny Johnson were involved) and the parallels to the time ABC canceled another late-night host after the right got mad. Up now at @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/abc- ...
Anne S Kim / @anne-s-kim.bsky.social: Ultimate irony of ironies - today is Constitution Day. — www.constitutionday.com — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Eric Umansky / @ericumansky.bsky.social: It's not just ABC and Disney that caved. — Nextstar, one of the country's largest TV station operators, said earlier tonight that they're kicking Kimmel off-air. — As it happens, they a big merger deal pending administration approval. — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b... [image]
Nick Ulivieri / @nuphoto.com: It's *VERY* important to note that ABC didn't decide to pull Kimmel's show as a private business decision (which they have a right to do), rather, the FCC implied that if ABC didn't punish Kimmel, the licenses of ABC affiliates could be revoked. — www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ f...
Jack Mirkinson / @jackmirkinson.bsky.social: this just doesn't cut it. kimmel didn't merely “face some criticism,” the head of the FCC publicly demanded that he be punished! and ABC obliged! it's a total dereliction not to make that clear in your headline www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b... [image]
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan.bsky.social: Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he'd still have a job.
Col. Boozy Badger / @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com: I'm sure they plan on stopping at late night comedians.
Paul Dechene / @pauldechene.bsky.social: Really thought shutting down the late night comedians would come in year two. America is overachieving on its slide into authoritarianism.
Craig Harrington / @craigipedia.bsky.social: Donald Trump is on a state visit in the UK right now. It's after 1am in the morning over there! [image]
Gina Intheburg / @ginaintheburg@mastodon.world: #ABC Pulls #JimmyKimmel off air for #CharlieKirk comments after #FCC chair issued a threat to remove ABC's broadcast license. — That's how Trump's govt rolls now: blatant gangster moves. — “Gee, nice network you got there. Too bad if s/thing should happen to it.” — https://www.nytimes.com/... …
UPBeachBum / @upbeachbum.bsky.social: Pure fascism. — “What people don't understand is that the broadcasters ... have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest.” Um lets fucking do Fox “News” now. 🤬 #FascistGOP www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ f...
@casmudde.bsky.social: So even someone like Jimmy Kimmel, who brings in millions, isn't safe from far-right intimidation! — And every high-profile surrender not just feeds the thirst for more among the far-right mob but also facilitates the next surrender.
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn.bsky.social: What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world. — What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
Frank Conniff / @frankconniff.bsky.social: Remember when trans people complained about some of Chappelle's jokes and then he got a multi-million dollar deal to make more Netflix specials? Now THAT was cancel culture!
Debra / @kalaka58.bsky.social: It's a good thing I don't watch ABC anyway, but Disney w/Hulu is about to be CANCELLED. — variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Katie Fallow / @katiefallow.bsky.social: “A government official cannot coerce a private party to punish or suppress disfavored speech on her behalf” NRA v Vullo — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Patrick Chovanec / @prchovanec.bsky.social: It does if it comes in response to a direct government threat to punish the broadcaster. Which happened today. [embedded post]
@lawprofblawg.bsky.social: One thing is certain: All those mergers have increased the efficiency of censorship and authoritarian control. — #Satire
Senator Scott Wiener / @scottwiener.bsky.social: CBS canceled Colbert. — ABC canceled Kimmel. — Both outlets did so after they bribed Trump with settlements of bogus lawsuits & after the hosts criticized Trump/MAGA. — This is peak fascism. [image]
KellzEvan / @kellzevan.bsky.social: Once again, the Left is practicing cancel culture. Oh, wait, this is coming from the Right. — This is Trumps way to crack down on the 1st Amendment (even though he probably doesn't know jack shit about the 1st Amendment). — variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Stephen / @stephenthen.bsky.social: Ooh, Drew, the story you link doesn't even capture the true horror. Today, the FCC Chair said “Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. . . . find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” CENSORSHIP
Yashar Ali / @yasharali.bsky.social: Benny Johnson, who had FCC Chairman Brandon Carr on his show earlier today, says “we did it for you, Charlie. And we're just getting started...” [image]
Bruce Little / @brucedlittle.bsky.social: Suppressing lawful expression & censoring dissent . . . FCC Chair Brendan Carr publicly threatened ABC affiliates with license revocation over Kimmel's comments, accusing him of “news distortion.” — This led to Nexstar Media Group to preempt the show, and to ABC officially suspending the program.
Aman Batheja / @amanbatheja.bsky.social: Incredible detail from Deadline: Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which debuted in 2003, “was born out of the network's cancellation of Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect in 2002 after the...host rebuked accusations that the 9/11 terrorists were ‘cowards.’” — deadline.com/2025/09/jimm...
Piper / @the-pied-piper.bsky.social: I feel like we sailed right by “put your oxygen mask on first before assisting others” and civic society collectively failed to notice at all that the masks had dropped out of the overhead compartment. — Sadly, the results aren't gonna be anywhere near as painless as drifting away into hypoxia.
Stan Oklobdzija / @stano.bsky.social: Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been. [embedded post]
Myles Warden / @reallymighty.bsky.social: This is beyond infuriating, and we cannot allow this to become an acceptable thing. First Colbert, now Kimmel...this is a dangerous precedent, and we aren't even a year into his Presidency yet. Who knows who will be next and for what petty reason. I'm disgusted. — deadline.com/2025/09/jimm...
Brent Toderian / @brenttoderian.bsky.social: Now the corporate cowards have cancelled Jimmy Kimmel too. Since Fallon has made himself unwatchable with his lack of integrity, it's nearing the end of credible late night interview shows in the U.S. (watch your back, Seth). — The lack of backbone is just staggering. www.vulture.com/article/abc- ...
Melissa Gira Grant / @melissagiragrant.com: that something significant in all this went down on The Benny Johnson Show.... ...... ......
Barron W. Tramp / @barronwtramp.bsky.social: I have two friends who think this isn't a really big deal — THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL! — This is very, very bad — This tells us we're not at the beginning of the takeover but IN THE MIDDLE — It doesn't matter if you watched Kimmel or not- — This- this is scary bad …
Sen. Adam Schiff / @schiff.senate.gov: This administration is responsible for the most blatant attacks on the free press in American history. — What will be left of the First Amendment when he's done?
Sen. Adam Schiff / @schiff.senate.gov: Kimmel. — Colbert. — Suits against the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes. — Extorting settlements from CBS, ABC, and others. — Blocking the AP's access to the White House. 🧵
Phil Lorigo / @plorigo.bsky.social: just checked, all the canaries in the coal mine are juuuust fine an- I SAID DONT GO DOWN THERE I JUST CHECKED THEY ARE FINE — www.vulture.com/article/abc- ...
@altspaceforce.altgov.info: It's still there. Just checking... ya know... no reason. — constitution.congress.gov/constitution. .. [image]
@beingliberal.bsky.social: The failure of mainstream media to do their job und actively undermine the First Amendment to appease the Mad King and his court will be taught in the history classes... and history will not be kind for them. — variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Jason Linkins / @dceiver.bsky.social: politics keeps being done the right way I guess — www.vulture.com/article/abc- ...
JonZoidberg / @jonzoidberg.xyz: Cancel culture is cool when they do it. — deadline.com/2025/09/jimm...
Brent Toderian / @brenttoderian.bsky.social: Now the corporate cowards have cancelled Jimmy Kimmel too. Since Jimmy Fallon has made himself unwatchable with his lack of integrity and backbone, it's the end of credible late night interview shows in the U.S. — And Trump didn't even have to make them do it. The corporations did it themselves.
Shauna / @goldengateblond.bsky.social: in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. — that fox news host still has his job. [embedded post]
Colin Laney / @frankenmizer.bsky.social: I think the backstory is Nexstar, with 200 stations in 116 markets — www.vulture.com/article/abc- ...
Dan Wentzel / @danwentzel@urbanists.social: ABC pulling JImmy Kimmel “indefinitely” is more proof that Trump's America is now a fascist state. — California/Pacifica independence anyone? — https://www.vulture.com/...
Governor JB Pritzker / @govpritzker.illinois.gov: A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn't like what they say. — This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. — All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
@itsdavis.bsky.social: when means of communication are owned by a small group of capitalists, freedom of expression is an illusion — www.vulture.com/article/abc- ...
Eric Deggans / @edeggans.bsky.social: My question: when in the world did the FCC get the power to pull any TV station's license over a joke? https://loom.ly/TT59lOQ
Kathleen Bachynski / @bachynski.bsky.social: Anna Gomez: “We must stand firm against every attempt to silence dissent, punish satirists and government critics, and erode individual liberty. To surrender our right to speak freely is to accept that those in power, not the people, will set the boundaries of debate that define a free society.”
Mark Jacob / @markjacob.bsky.social: “Media capture” happens when friends of a strongman leader buy up media and transform them into mouthpieces for him. And it happens when big corporations decide that sacrificing the legitimacy of their media properties is a way to protect their farflung businesses from the fascist leader's sabotage.
Matt Birchler / @matt_birchler@mastodon.social: Wait, wasn't comedy legal now? https://www.nytimes.com/...
E.W. Niedermeyer / @niedermeyer.online: if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure “snowflake” even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
Eric Darnley Small / @ericdsmall@mastodon.vtip.me: ABC has pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from its schedule “indefinitely” after Nexstar Media, a major owner of ABC-affiliated TV stations, announced it would preempt the show in response to Kimmel's remarks about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. …
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__@threads.com: The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I'm behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn't just being chilled, they're freezing it.
Amy Kristin Sanders / @amykristinsanders.bsky.social: This is unsurprising given ABC settled with Trump for $15M less than a year ago in defamation case it likely could have won. — One by one, the major media companies are demonstrating unheard of levels of cowardice in the face of bullying from the Trump Administration. [embedded post]
Allison Hantschel / @allisonhantschel.com: I just cannot believe ... like for this fucking guy? That's who we're dismantling society for? Does this seem normal AT ALL?! [embedded post]
Kim Perales / @KimPerales@toad.social: “ABC is pulling #JimmyKimmelLive “indefinitely” after Nexstar Media, one of the nation's largest TV station owners, said it would stop airing the program in response to Kimmel's remarks about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.” — #Fascism #FreePress #1A #FreeSpeech #Protest #USPol https://variety.com/...
Akela Cooper / @akelacooper.bsky.social: There have been so many canaries in this coal mine of shit we're and this is a huge one. — deadline.com/2025/09/jimm...
Kyle Clark / @kylec.bsky.social: Nexstar is one of the largest owners of local TV stations in the US. Nexstar, which owns Fox31 in Denver, is acquiring the parent company of 9NEWS and has said the stations will be combined. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Adam B. Vary / @adambvary.bsky.social: This is deeply, deeply chilling, and I suspect will be seen as even more of a turning point than Colbert's cancellation — at least The Late Show is still on the air.
Tim Onion / @bencollins.bsky.social: The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I'm behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn't just being chilled, they're freezing it.
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TvmoJoe / @tvmojoe.bsky.social: Update: It's not just Nexstar — “Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely” - per an ABC spokesperson [embedded post]
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air because the Trump administration didn't like what he had to say and threatened his employers until they shut him up — Let's be clear about what just happened: Jimmy Kimmel, a prominent late-night comedian, was just taken off the airwaves …
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Brian Stelter / CNN: How Brendan Carr, the attack-dog FCC chair, helped take down Jimmy Kimmel with words, not actions
Brian Stelter / CNN: Trump's anti-media blitz that led to Kimmel's suspension is straight from a European strongman's playbook
Lili Loofbourow / Washington Post: Kimmel's suspension confirms what many suspected after Colbert's cancellation
Dan Mangan / CNBC: Trump floats pulling licenses if networks are ‘against’ him after Jimmy Kimmel suspended
David Bauder / Associated Press: Kimmel's future hangs in balance after ABC suspends his late-night show over Charlie Kirk comments
Barack Obama / @barackobama: After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn't like. https://www.yahoo.com/...
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite: Barack Obama Denounces ‘Dangerous’ Jimmy Kimmel Suspension: ‘Media Companies Need to Start Standing Up’ to Trump
Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Who Is Brendan Carr of the F.C.C.?
Kathryn Watson / CBS News: Trump says TV networks covering him negatively should “maybe” have their licenses revoked
Joey Garrison / USA Today: President Trump says negative coverage about him by TV networks should be grounds for the FCC to revoke broadcast licenses, and “it will be up to Brendan Carr”
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate: No, the Supreme Court Did Not Give Trump a License to Silence Jimmy Kimmel
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune: President Obama accuses the Trump administration of ‘government coercion’ after ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air
Dan Primack / @danprimack: fwiw, Kimmel ratings were #1 in the demo for Q2 at 11:30pm. #2 overall (behind Colbert, ahead of Fallon). https://latenighter.com/...
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle: With Jimmy Kimmel's firing, cancel culture is now official government policy
Claire Franken / TVLine: Barack Obama Responds to Jimmy Kimmel Live! Preemption, Calls It a ‘New and Dangerous’ Escalation of Cancel Culture
Jim Berkman / Jim Berkman on LinkedIn: Trump has weaponized the FCC regulatory system in a way that has never happened before. Comments made by Kimmel - and before him Colbert …
Philip Klein / National Review: The Government Shouldn't Police Jimmy Kimmel's Lies
Gerren Keith Gaynor / TheGrio: Barack Obama, Jasmine Crockett, others call out Trump administration after Jimmy Kimmel suspension
Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: For those on the right who might like what they're seeing from this FCC: Remember that Democrats will wield this power again. https://www.thefp.com/...
Allison Winn / @aswinn@threads.com: If you are shrugging off Kimmel, or worse, celebrating it, you have no understanding of how far this can go. If the administration doesn't like an author's books, they can demand their publisher drop them. If they don't like someone's social media, they can demand their employer fire them. …
Philip Klein / @philipaklein: ABC and its affiliates may have pulled the trigger, but they did so with FCC guns pointed at their own heads if they did not. My take: “The Government Shouldn't Police Jimmy Kimmel's Lies” https://www.nationalreview.com/ ...
Sam J. / twitchy.com: HOOBOY! S.E. Cupp Claims the Trump Admin Is KILLING Free Speech and Greg Gutfeld Ain't Havin' NONE Of It
Karl Bode / Techdirt: Jimmy Kimmel's Firing Comes As Feckless TV Networks Lobby Trump To Destroy Remaining Media Consolidation Limits
Lea Veloso / StyleCaster: Obama Just Called Out Trump's ‘Dangerous’ Response to Jimmy Kimmel's Show Getting Pulled as His True Feelings Toward the President Are Revealed
Brianna Lyman / The Federalist: 6 Times Leftists Melting Down Over Jimmy Kimmel Were Happy To Deny Conservatives ‘Free Speech’
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: FCC derided as “Federal Censorship Commission” after pushing Jimmy Kimmel off ABC
Lauren Sforza / New Jersey Online: Obama issues dire warning after ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel off the air: ‘A new and dangerous level’
Garrett Owen / Salon: Democrats defend Kimmel, say FCC chair “disgraced” his office
Josephine Walker / Axios: Obama calls Jimmy Kimmel suspension “government coercion”
Sara Dorn / Forbes: Top Democrats Allege Possible FCC ‘Corrupt Pay-To-Play’ Scheme Behind Kimmel Firing
Brett Samuels / The Hill: Trump says Kimmel ‘fired because he had bad ratings’
Joey Nolfi / Entertainment Weekly: Barack Obama condemns ‘routinely threatening’ acts targeting media amid Jimmy Kimmel suspension: ‘Government coercion’
@agomezfcc.bsky.social: This FCC does not have the authority, the ability, or the constitutional right to police content or punish broadcasters for speech the government dislikes. — Free speech is the foundation of our democracy, and we must push back against any attempt to erode it. [image]
@unavaleable.bsky.social: I think Obama very clearly wants to be a party elder on Mount Olympus, keeping his powder dry so when he hurls down a thunderbolt it has the most impact/salience but not exactly surprised to see that strategy crumble if other party leaders aren't pulling their weight [embedded post]
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story: Barack Obama levels Trump admin over its ‘new and dangerous level’ of coercion
Peter Kafka / Business Insider: Let's be clear: The Trump administration forcing Jimmy Kimmel off the air is bad. Very bad.
Governor JB Pritzker / @govpritzker.illinois.gov: This is the playbook, folks. — If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. — Do not be quiet in this moment.
Steve Benen / MSNBC: 'There's more work to go': Team Trump sees Kimmel as the latest target, but not the last
Aaron Blake / @aaronblake: Some relevant Supreme Court decisions in re: FCC and Kimmel 2024: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.” 1963: A government entity cannot wield the “threat of invoking legal sanctions
Gabby Giffords / @gabbygiffords@threads.com: Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are big parts of what made this country great. The government threatening TV stations because our president doesn't like a comedian is dangerous. I'm proud to stand with my friend @JimmyKimmel.
Zack Beauchamp / @zackbeauchamp: We should be very clear on the sequence of events and economic interests at work here. Trump weaponized regulatory powers to do punish protected speech from one of his most hated critics [image]
Barack Obama / @barackobama: This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cristina Laila / The Gateway Pundit: Barack Obama Lashes Out at Trump Administration After ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel's Show
Elias Isquith / @eliasisquith.blog: just speculation on my part but i suspect obama would not be making so many public comments about current politics if he thought the other leaders of the party were doing a good job on their own
Rich Stein / @RunRichRun@mastodon.social: The capitulation of mainstream media is happening quickly and with little resistance — it seems in the hope that politics won't interfere with profits. I would not count on that. — https://www.vox.com/...
Julia Reinstein / The Cut: Jimmy Kimmel Has Been Suspended ‘Indefinitely’ Following Charlie Kirk Comments
Jon Cryer / @mrjoncryer@threads.com: This is a lie. Jimmy Kimmel said nothing disparaging about Charlie Kirk.
@bulwarkonline@threads.com: Trump: “Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else, and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk...They should have fired him a long time ago.”
Kyla Scanlon / @kylascan: @TheEtiologist It wasn't really about what he said
María Porcel / El País: Jimmy Kimmel, the ‘nice guy’ the Trump administration got fired after two decades of late-night comedy
Derek Thompson / @dkthomp: The Biden administration working with social media companies to throttle what they considered COVID misinformation might or might not have been legally principled, but it did at least pretend to have a substantive moral argument that was something like, “We don't want people to
John Scalzi / @jscalzi@threads.com: So Colbert got cancelled probably in part due to a pending merger of Skydance and Paramount, and the Kimmel thing almost certainly happened because one of ABC's largest affiliates, Sinclair, is trying to merge with another large media company, and in both cases FCC approval is key …
Just Jared: FCC Chair Brendan Carr's Response to Glee's Kevin McHale Goes Viral Amid Jimmy Kimmel News
The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali: Jimmy Kimmel Cancelled as Trump uses Charlie Kirk's Murder for his Reichstag Fire moment.
Selome Hailu / Variety: Barack Obama Slams Jimmy Kimmel Suspension: The Trump Administration Is ‘Threatening’ Media Companies to ‘Muzzle or Fire’ People ‘After Years of Complaining About Cancel Culture’
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
President Trump applauded ABC's move to take Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air and urged NBC to do the same to Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers — Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.
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Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com: Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that's possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. …
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: I asked FCC chair @BrendanCarrFCC if he had any new comment now that ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel's show, and he sent me this GIF [image]
Gavin Newsom / @gavinnewsom: Buying and controlling media platforms. Firing commentators. Canceling shows. These aren't coincidences. It's coordinated. And it's dangerous. The @GOP does not believe in free speech. They are censoring you in real time.
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: NBC's Jimmy Fallon Backs Out of Fast Company Innovation Festival as ABC Pulls Kimmel Indefinitely
Lea Veloso / StyleCaster: Seth Meyers' Comments About Owing Trump an ‘Apology’ Resurface After the President Threatened to Cancel His ‘Horrible’ Show Following Jimmy Kimmel's Suspension
Tyler Johnson / The Hollywood Gossip: Jimmy Fallon Abruptly Cancels Gig Following Kimmel Firing; ‘The View’ Stars ...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Jimmy Kimmel Expressed Hope That if Trump Came After Him, Those on the Right ‘Will Support My Right’ to Free Speech — but the Opposite Has Happened
Anna Kaufman / USA Today: After Kimmel suspension, Trump sets sights on Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers: ‘Do It NBC!’
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Fallon abruptly cancels an appearance — hours after Kimmel's show is yanked
Adi Robertson / The Verge: Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk's memory by declaring war on the First Amendment
Jordan Hart / Business Insider: Jimmy Fallon drops out of a business conference appearance last minute
Ryan Hudgins / Us Weekly: Jimmy Fallon Drops Out of NYC Conference Hours After Jimmy Kimmel Show Suspension
Chris Bradford / The US Sun: Donald Trump blasts ‘zero talent’ Jimmy Kimmel and celebrates him being taken off air with ‘congratulations’ note to ABC
Perry Chiaramonte / New York Sun: Trump Gloats Over Suspension of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ as Celebs React to Chilling of Free Speech
Governor Josh Stein / @nc_governor: Our freedom of speech is one of the most precious rights enshrined in our Constitution. People have the right to say what they believe - even when we disagree. Free speech is not limited only to speech that we like.
Danielle Decker Jones / @djtweets: Kimmel's comments on Monday: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” “In between the
@wearesinclair: Due to problematic comments regarding the murder of Charlie Kirk in programming provided to broadcast stations by ABC, Sinclair and its partners, which operate ABC stations in 30 markets in the U.S., will stop airing Jimmy Kimmel's show until further notice.
Ryan Grim / @ryangrim: Comedy police blowing the whistle. Thank you for your service. There was a brief reign of comedy lawlessness — everything was fair game after Trump won — but thankfully the FCC is putting the lid back on. But the FCC is not enough. We clearly need a Ministry of Comedic Truth
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: The Kimmel monologue from Monday had 1.4 million views on YouTube before ABC put his show on hiatus. As of now, that number has doubled to 2.89 million views. https://www.youtube.com/...
Sasha / @servingcapreal: the John Oliver team currently debating how much prison time they want to serve for their next episode
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Assuming Kimmel returns to his show as planned and intended, his opening monologue is going to be watched by and dissected by a lot of people. He's had a good relationship with Disney for many years.
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Worth dropping in the full clip as context for your followers. Feel free to retweet it. [video]
@eatmekrugman: @bonchieredstate 100% accurate! Nexstar ended this today...and now Sinclair is saying they will have a Kirk special on Friday night in Kimmels spot. These big two ABC affiliates are why the show was canceled. Disney/ABC was going to get destroyed for that hour of high cost/no revenue
Nico Perrino / @nicoperrino: @bonchieredstate The FCC chairman literally said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” And we already have reporting that execs were “pissing themselves” and fearful of government retaliation. [image]
@bonchieredstate: ABC did not fire Kimmel because of a government threat. There's nothing they were going to do, and everyone knows it. ABC fired Kimmel because he was losing the network millions a year and they needed a reason.
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: Nexstar has an acquisition that needs approval [image]
Nico Perrino / @nicoperrino: And, put this in the record, too: https://www.rollingstone.com/ ... [image]
Nico Perrino / @nicoperrino: Brendan Carr wrote the new textbook definition of jawboning when he said of Kimmel and ABC, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” And he celebrates his censorship with a lame meme, which, in a sane world, would be an exhibit in a lawsuit.
Erin Burnett OutFront / @outfrontcnn: “He did make a joke, one that others may even find crude. But that is neither illegal nor grounds for companies to capitulate to this administration in ways that violate the first amendment.” Anna Gomez, an FCC Commissioner, talks to @ErinBurnett about #ABC's decision to [video]
Jim Mishler / NewsMax.com: Jimmy Fallon No-Show at N.Y. Event
Carly Thomas / The Hollywood Reporter: Trump Celebrates After ABC Suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Over Charlie Kirk Comments
Jordan Ruimy / World of Reel: Stop Asking About Jimmy Kimmel—This Is a Movie Website
Sean Keeley / Awful Announcing: Dave Portnoy catches flak for moving the goalposts in Jimmy Kimmel cancel culture critique
Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud / @chercheurjuteux.com: Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk's memory by declaring war on the First Amendment — The guardians of ‘free speech’ sure had a change of heart. — www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
@stardustbluepr.com: ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Is the latest victim of Trump's weaponized FCC and media conglomerates quick to bend the knee
Slade Wentworth / @thedadbriefs@threads.com: This affects all of us. Whether you're a fan of Charlie Kirk or a fan of Jimmy Kimmel, you had better be a fan of the First Amendment.
Slade Wentworth / @thedadbriefs@threads.com: There is no nuance or finer point to be made here. This administration is leveraging lies to profit from the restriction of free speech.
Binyamin Appelbaum / @bcappelbaum.bsky.social: The owners of local TV stations were a conservative force in American politics and society even back when there were a lot of them. But allowing them to consolidate has certainly made it easier for them to flex those muscles. [embedded post]
@ndhapple.bsky.social: “And on Wednesday's now-scrapped show, he had put together an explainer on what he actually said vs. what the right-wing media claimed he said. Now, that won't air.” variety.com/2025/tv/news...
@kenwhite.bsky.social: A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There's no point at which they will say “we've won, let's enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They're empty without that.
Adam B. Vary / @adambvary.bsky.social: Via my colleague @franklinavenue.bsky.social, for tonight's now-scrapped show, Jimmy Kimmel “had put together an explainer on what he actually said” about the shooter of Charlie Kirk “vs. what the right-wing media claimed he said. Now, that won't air.”
Tim Onion / @bencollins.bsky.social: Becoming increasingly clear we're gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
Phil Lewis / @phillewis.bsky.social: The WGA's statement on ABC's decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” [image]
@acyn.bsky.social: Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC
Sahara Stevens / @sahara-stevens.bsky.social: First is was Colbert. Now it's Kimmel. This is what authoritarians do. Trump wants to shut down any free speech that is critical of him. — Donald Trump Celebrates ABC Decision To Pull Jimmy Kimmel, Urges NBC To Drop Jimmy Fallon And Seth Meyers
Chris Murphy / @chrismurphyct.bsky.social: This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy. [image]
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Nexstar and Sinclair, who said they'd preempt Kimmel, are lobbying the FCC over regulatory issues; Nexstar needs FCC approval for its $6.2B Tegna acquisition — Their announcements on Wednesday come amid the furor over host's comments about the suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination …
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Sara Boboltz / HuffPost: Amid Shock Kimmel Debacle, These Big Corporations Need Trump Cronies To OK Deals
KSTP-TV: Who are Nexstar and Sinclair, the ABC affiliate owners who issued statements against Jimmy Kimmel
Los Angeles Times: Behind the decision to bench Jimmy Kimmel: Trump FCC threats and charges of corporate cowardice
Will Potter / Daily Mail: Jimmy Kimmel Live! to be replaced by Charlie Kirk tribute show - and star won't be allowed back on air unless he makes Turning Point USA donation
Jessica Wang / Entertainment Weekly: Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tells ABC affiliate group to burn in hell ‘alongside Charlie Kirk’
Cynthia Littleton / Variety: ABC Affiliate Stations Told ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Will Be Off at Least Through Thursday, Replaced by ‘Celebrity Family Feud’
Felix Gillette / Bloomberg: Trump's War on Late Night Rallies Opposition
Olivia Truffaut-Wong / Cosmopolitan: Barack Obama, Jean Smart, and More Celebs React to Jimmy Kimmel's Shocking Suspension
Jordan Ruimy / World of Reel: Damon Lindelof, Other Major Talent Pledge to Boycott Disney Unless Jimmy Kimmel Returns
Carson Blackwelder / People: Jimmy Kimmel Asked to Apologize and Pay Charlie Kirk's Family if He Wants Suspension Lifted by Nation's Largest ABC Affiliate
Greg Owen / LGBTQ Nation: Sinclair Broadcasting is trying to force Jimmy Kimmel to donate to anti-LGBTQ+ organization
Nick Arama / RedState: Sinclair Delivers Big Statement on Kimmel Suspension With What They'll Be Airing in His Slot Instead
Eugene Volokh / Reason: Jimmy Kimmel, the NRA, and the First Amendment
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite: Media Giant Praises Trump's FCC Chair Over Kimmel Threats, Says Suspension Doesn't Go Far Enough
Adisa Hargett-Robinson / Washington Examiner: Kimmel's exit reflects collapse of politicized late-night TV: Joe Concha
Joseph A. Wulfsohn / New York Post: Dozens of ABC stations to air Charlie Kirk tribute special at Jimmy Kimmel's time slot after Disney indefinitely shelves show
Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial: ABC stations will air Charlie Kirk memorial tribute in place of Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday
Matt Stieb / New York Magazine: Nexstar Led the Charge Against Jimmy Kimmel. They Had a Business Motive.
Fortune: Jimmy Kimmel's canned show will be replaced by a Charlie Kirk tribute — and an angry ABC affiliate is demanding a donation to Turning Point USA
Charles Gasparino / New York Post: Here's the real reason ABC has suspended ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic: Trump Celebrates Censorship by Mocking Jimmy Kimmel
Sara Donnellan / New Jersey Online: What did Jimmy Kimmel say about Charlie Kirk before his indefinite suspension?
Mike LaChance / Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Mark Halperin on Kimmel Cancellation: ‘A Watershed Moment, Conservatives Watch TV Too’
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Top Oversight Democrat Says He's Launching Investigation Of Trump Administration, ABC And Sinclair Over Jimmy Kimmel Suspension
Ed Morrissey / HotAir: TBT Karma: Kimmel Celebrates Tucker's Firing
Howard Koplowitz / al.com: Nation's largest ABC affiliate owner to air 1-hour Charlie Kirk tribute in Jimmy Kimmel's timeslot
Gigi Sohn / @gbsohn.bsky.social: Disney's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel is what happens when the government allows decades of media and tech consolidation. When control of media and tech are in the hands of a handful of companies, it becomes easier for authoritarian leaders to control them. deadline.com/2025/09/nexs...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show. [video]
Kevin Collins / @kwcollins.bsky.social: But also, the pressure to fire Kimmel came from the stations that are network affiliates (Nextar and Sinclair), which they can exercise again because of consolidation that was previously prohibited — deadline.com/2025/09/nexs...
Harold Hutchison / Daily Caller News Foundation: CNN's Brian Stelter's Reaction To Jimmy Kimmel's Benching Is Exactly What You'd Expect
Kaiser / Cele|bitchy: ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel after his comments about Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter
William Hughes / The A.V. Club: Sinclair-owned ABC stations to run Charlie Kirk tribute in Jimmy Kimmel's timeslot
Alex Henderson / Raw Story: Jimmy Kimmel pressured to make ‘meaningful personal donation’ to Kirk's family: report
Martin Holmes / TV Insider: Kimmel Replaced by ‘Celebrity Family Feud’ Over Charlie Kirk Comments: Will Show Be Back?
Paul Farrell / The Independent: What is Sinclair Broadcasting? The conservative company demanding apology from Jimmy Kimmel over Charlie Kirk
James Morley III / NewsMax.com: Sen. Schumer Urges Kimmel: ‘Go to Court’ Over Suspension
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net: Sinclair demands Jimmy Kimmel make personal donation to Charlie Kirk's non-profit
Jason Lee / Bossip: Cancel Culture: Jimmy Kimmel Live! Off Air Indefinitely Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Sinclair Demands Apology And TPUSA Donation
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall: Is This the Most Vile Reaction to Kimmel Getting Pulled Off Air?
Jorge Bonilla / Newsbusters: Sinclair Says Suspension Not Enough, Will Air Charlie Kirk Special During Kimmel's Timeslot
George Winslow / TV Tech:
The FCC's Anna Gomez, the commission's lone Democrat, calls ABC's decision to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air a “cowardly corporate capitulation” to FCC threats
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Joseph Gedeon / The Guardian: House Democrats call for FCC chair to quit over Jimmy Kimmel suspension
Julia Conley / Common Dreams: ‘Red Alert Moment’ for Free Speech as ABC Cowers to Trump FCC and Cancels Kimmel
Deadline: Government Threats Against Jimmy Kimmel Are “Truly Empty”, Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Says
Chris Katje / Benzinga: Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Fallout: Cancel Disney+ Searches Soar, Will Comcast Win With Fallon?
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone: ‘Cowardly Corporate Capitulation’: FCC Commish Blasts Trump, Disney in Kimmel Debacle
Business Insider: ‘The View’ is known for covering hot topics. Jimmy Kimmel's suspension wasn't one of them.
Josh Rosenberg / Esquire: Everything We Know About Why Jimmy Kimmel Was Taken Off the Air
Phillip Nieto / Daily Mail: Obama attacks Trump after his good friend Jimmy Kimmel was taken off air
NCS | NewscastStudio: ABC suspends production of ‘Kimmel’ over Kirk comments: Here's what's happened
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: FCC chief: Colbert, Kimmel ‘facing the consequences’ of choices to ‘appeal to a very, very narrow audience’
Danielle Haynes / UPI: Trump says Kimmel pulled over ratings; Dems seek FCC head resignation
Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez blasts ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel
Fortune: FCC chief considers charging Kimmel, ABC with spreading misinformation over jokes, remarks about the ideology of Charlie Kirk assassin
Russ Latino / Magnolia Tribune: Kimmel's “the FCC won't let me be” moment
@agomezfcc.bsky.social: When corporations surrender in the face of that pressure, they endanger not just themselves, but the right to free expression for everyone in this country. — The duty to defend the First Amendment does not rest with government, but with all of us.
@agomezfcc.bsky.social: First, an ABC reporter was told that his coverage amounted to hate speech and he should be prosecuted simply for doing his job. — Then, the FCC threatened to go after this same network, seizing on a late-night comedian's inopportune joke as a pretext to punish speech it disliked.
@agomezfcc.bsky.social: But even the threat to revoke a license is no small matter. It poses an existential risk to a broadcaster, which by definition cannot exist without its license. — That makes billion-dollar companies with pending business before the agency all the more vulnerable to pressure.
@agomezfcc.bsky.social: That led to a shameful show of cowardly corporate capitulation by ABC that has put the foundation of the First Amendment in danger. — We cannot allow an inexcusable act of political violence to be twisted into a justification for government censorship and control.
David McAfee / Raw Story: ‘Shameless liar’: Trump official who pushed Kimmel firing takes heat for his new statement
Chris Morris / Quartz: Disney takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air ‘indefinitely’ after Charlie Kirk remarks
Becca Longmire / People: SAG-AFTRA, WGA, and More Condemn ABC's Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! Following Host's Charlie Kirk Comments
Alex Cooper / Advocate: jimmy kimmel congressional investigation
Sean James / Mediaite:
Brendan Carr says the FCC may need to pursue “remedies” against Jimmy Kimmel, if ABC doesn't discipline him, for implying Charlie Kirk's killer was a MAGA fan
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Benny Johnson / @bennyjohnson: BREAKING: The FCC Chairman is threatening immediate action against Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, and Disney for deliberately misleading the public by claiming Charlie Kirk's assassin was a MAGA Conservative. Chairman Brendan Carr calls Kimmel's malicious lies are “truly sick” and says they [video]
Liam Reilly / CNN: FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel's remarks about Charlie Kirk
Taylor Herzlich / New York Post: Trump suggests revoking TV licenses from networks ‘against’ him after Jimmy Kimmel pulled off air
Gene Maddaus / Variety: FCC Chairman Threatens ABC Over Jimmy Kimmel's Remarks About Charlie Kirk's Killer
Max Rego / The Hill: Who is FCC Chair Brendan Carr?
Armon Sadler / Vibe: Barack Obama On Jimmy Kimmel Being Pulled Off Air: “Media Companies Need To Start Standing Up”
Chicago Tribune: That was a lousy bit, Jimmy Kimmel. But there's no role here for government intervention.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire: Jimmy Kimmel's Removal Has Sent Us Back to Cold-War-Era Censorship
Hannah Knudsen / Breitbart: Obama Whines About ‘Cancel Culture’ over Jimmy Kimmel: Trump Has ‘Taken It to a New and Dangerous Level’
Fox News: FCC Chair Brendan Carr defends ABC affiliates pulling Jimmy Kimmel show after monologue mocking Charlie Kirk
Charlie McCarthy / NewsMax.com: FCC Chair Carr: Kimmel ‘Appeared to Directly Mislead’ Viewers
@bulwarkonline: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr: “There's actions we can take on licensed broadcasters. It's long past the time that...Comcast and Disney say 'We're not gonna run Kimmel anymore...because we licensed broadcasters are running the possibly of fines or licensed revocation from the FCC.'” [video]
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic: FCC Chair Takes Victory Lap After Muzzling Kimmel
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Democratic Leaders Blast Media Companies For “Act of Cowardice” In Pulling Jimmy Kimmel, Call For FCC Chair To Resign: “This Will Not Be Forgotten”
Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA: Trump's Duplicitous FCC Chair Misleads About Threatening ABC To Get Jimmy Kimmel Off The Air
Andrew Solender / Axios: Top House Dems demand FCC chair resign over Jimmy Kimmel suspension
McKay Coppins / @mckaycoppins: A lot of the people currently mocking government-censorship concerns about the Kimmel suspension seem genuinely to have missed that the FCC Chair straightforwardly threatened ABC over his monologue: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” [image]
Dean Obeidallah / The Dean's Report: Kimmel wasn't suspended for a joke about Kirk-he was suspended for mocking Trump.
Joseph Hudak / Rolling Stone: Was This Jimmy Kimmel's Last Ever Musical Guest?
Ted Johnson / @tedstew: The FCC really has no authority to sanction ABC or stations over what Kimmel said. Its own website reminds that it has limited authority when it comes to programming. But companies have to be willing to defend their First Amendment rights.
Bill Walter / @billwalter.bsky.social: The irony is that any media company that won't defend itself and the first amendment is the type of company that does not deserve to hold a broadcasting license in the United States of America. — variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Elizabeth Melimopoulos / Al Jazeera: What did Jimmy Kimmel say about Charlie Kirk before ABC pulled his show?
Scott Nover / @scottnover: This is like the 12th time Carr has said he's going to take away a broadcast license. (I do think he'll eventually try.)
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Nonstop attacks on free speech from this administration
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: FCC chairman Brendan Carr also recently took issue with ABC for an episode of “The View,” using very similar language about potential consequences https://www.mediaite.com/...
@thebluenami.is.democrat: F*&K BRENDAN CARR & the bullsh*t surrounding jimmy kimmel — the only thing kimmel said was that kirk's alleged shooter was ‘one of them’. he's being cancelled for simply telling the truth - b/c it doesn't fit the narrative 🍊 wants... ALL they have are LIES — variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Robin / @trumpsatwit.bsky.social: It was the Fat donnie's FCC boss Brendan Carr that threatened ABC over Kimmel's comment. The comment was nothing a big zero but, no such thing as Free Speech in a Private Company. Sickening! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Mike Sacks / @mikesacks.bsky.social: We can see the legal hair-splitting now from Carr just based on how he answered a question about online trolls celebrating Kirk's death (grabs 1 & 2) compared to his comments on Kimmel's monologue (grabs 3 & 4) — www.politico.com/news/2025/09... variety.com/2025/tv/news... [images]
Bill Goodykoontz / Arizona Republic: Why the FCC chairman's threats against Jimmy Kimmel are blood-chilling
Mark Bauer / @thepurplebauer.bsky.social: Outright censorship by the Trump fascist regime. Subsequent to this article, Kimmel was removed from TV.
@hedylamarr1987.bsky.social: Seriously?? @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com What thin skin trump has ESPECIALLY when the kid grew up in a family that have been trump supporters from day one! That's almost 1/2 his life! And this stooge wouldn't be saying it if trump or Russell Vought didn't approve! — www.mediaite.com/media/news/ j...
@laterdays.bsky.social: Free speech is a fundamental right that has been protected by the Supreme Court for decades. [embedded post]
@darrenzone.bsky.social: Bob Iger needs to do something & clearly the $15 million bribery isn't working, besides if they want KXTV, WTNH, WOI, WGNO, WNEP, WHTM, WATN, WATE, KVUE & WVEC into ABC O&Os well tell the FCC to shut & focus on stopping the big tech invasion. Local ABC stations on Disney+ must be launch soon enough. …
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona.bsky.social: The administration is absolutely going to try to force ABC/Disney to fire Jimmy Kimmel. — www.mediaite.com/media/news/ j...
Dean Obeidallah / @deanobeidallah.bsky.social: JUST IN: Trump FCC Chair Threatens ABC With Punishment Over Jimmy Kimmel's Charlie Kirk Comments. You are only permitted to say things about Kirk that are pre-approved by Trump regime. Any deviation will result in Trump punishment (But pls dont call Trump fascist) www.mediaite.com/media/news/ j...
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
The BBC and UK's other public sector broadcasters call for new regulations to force platforms such as YouTube to give them a fairer deal and more prominence — Bosses say independent news needs to be promoted on social platforms that increasing numbers of viewers are turning to
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BBC: Public Service Broadcasters - These measures can help secure distinct British broadcasting for the future
Jake Kanter / Deadline: BBC, ITV, Paramount & Channel 4 Chiefs Downplay Merger Talks: “I'm Not Sure That's Good For The UK”
Colin Mann / Advanced Television: UK PSBs call for safeguards
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
The UK says it wants to change the law to ensure public service media content appears prominently on major video sharing platforms, implicitly targeting YouTube
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Matthew Corrigan / TVBEurope: Lisa Nandy stresses need for “strong” public service media to help viewers make informed choices
Julian Clover / Broadband TV News: Lisa Nandy offers support to Public Service Media
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
A group of 60 Netflix Animation Studios workers requested voluntary union recognition from management as they seek to unionize the Animation Guild — The staffers are attempting to join the Animation Guild, which continues to organize aggressively inside the production space.
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
The Atlantic Festival, being held in NYC, is expected to attract nearly 2,000 in-person attendees; events now comprise 25% of The Atlantic's commercial revenue — The Atlantic is doubling down on live journalism. — This week marks the first time the publisher has held its flagship event, The Atlantic Festival, in New York.
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Loree Seitz / The Wrap: David Letterman Says Jimmy Kimmel's ABC Suspension Is a ‘Misery,’ Slams Trump as ‘Authoritarian Criminal’
Mark Stenberg / Mark Stenberg on LinkedIn: New: The Atlantic moved its flagship festival to New York this year and has seen revenue surge 36%, its largest take since 2018. …
@pressgazette.co.uk: The Atlantic has seen revenue from its flagship event The Atlantic Festival, which this year moved from Washington DC to New York, increase by 36% year on year. Events now make up 25% of The Atlantic's commercial revenue, of which 60% comes from The Atlantic Festival www.adweek.com/media/atlant...
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Australia's ABC is barred from a Trump press conference in the UK for “logistical reasons” after an ABC reporter questioned Trump about his business activity — Exclusive: London bureau of Australia's national broadcaster informed accreditation removed for ‘logistical reasons’
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Kevin Dolak / The Hollywood Reporter: Trump Claims Kimmel Was “Fired” for “Lack of Talent” After ABC Late Night Show Pulled
David Knox / TV Tonight: ABC blocked from joint press conference
David Gilmour / Mediaite: Aussie Reporter Shut Out of Trump Presser Days After President Scolded Network Editor
Spencer Green / @spencergreen.bsky.social: International capitulation. (Which could be a “Schoolhouse Rock” title.)
Helio Fred Garcia / @hfgarcia.bsky.social: As he was leaving for London Trump got pissed off when an Australian journalist asked him about his involvement in business dealings while president. So the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was excluded from his London presser... youtu.be/50sE9NXIDvs?... www.theguardian.com/media/2025/ s...
Travis Gettys / Raw Story: ‘Key questions’ remain about Trump's role in Jimmy Kimmel suspension: CNN reporter
Prof. Julie Posetti / Prof. Julie Posetti on LinkedIn: After asking a fair and forthright question of President Trump about potential conflicts of interest regarding his business dealings while in office …
Vanity Fair:
Vanity Fair announces 12 new hires, including Olivia Nuzzi, who left New York Magazine in October 2024 after admitting to an affair with RFK Jr. — Jennifer Pastore, Olivia Nuzzi, Lindsey Underwood, Aidan McLaughlin, and more to join the magazine — Today, Vanity Fair global editorial …
Maya Sweedler / Associated Press:
Survey: ~50% of US adults who subscribe only to sports streamers are “somewhat” or “very” satisfied by the availability of sports events they want to watch — For many dedicated sports fans, keeping up with their favorite teams has become a juggling act.
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
The News Movement is restructuring under a holding company called Caliber and plans to launch an app, SaySo, which will be “like Apple News+ but for creators” — The holding company will house TNM, The Recount, Capsule, and Caliber Collective ahead of a 2026 app launch
Oliver Connolly / The Guardian:
Tom Brady's twin roles as commentator and minority team owner is one in a long line of conflicts of interest in sports media, including the NFL's stake in ESPN — The seven-time Super Bowl champion has a prominent position at both Fox and the team he co-owns. It's getting harder for those two things to exist together
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Jerry McDonald / Mercury News: NFL mag: Catching up with Amy Trask
Barry Svrluga / Washington Post: Tom Brady is doing too much
Alex Andrejev / The Athletic: Is Tom Brady's production access a big deal? These NFL coaches don't seem concerned
Bridget Hyland / New Jersey Online: NFL coach weighs in on Tom Brady controversy
Adam Schefter / @adamschefter: NFL announced today that Tom Brady, a minority owner with the Raiders and a broadcaster for Fox, is “prohibited from going to a team facility for practices or production meetings.” But he is allowed to sit in the coaches' booth, per the league. https://www.espn.co.uk/...
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