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'Marvel Movies Need to Shutdown!': Kimmel Fans Cancel Disney+ as ABC Sparks Firestorm Over Suspension

Disney faces backlash after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live!, prompting Disney+ cancellations, #BoycottMarvel calls, and scrutiny over media influence, affiliate pressure, and regulatory oversight.

International Business Times UK

Exclusive: FCC commissioner criticizes administration for "weaponizing" agency's authority

Anna Gomez, the lone Democratic commissioner at the FCC, has been critical of chair Brendan Carr.

Axios

President Obama accuses the Trump administration of 'government coercion' after ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air

The 44th U.S. president said media companies need to stand up instead of cave.

Fortune

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Obama calls Jimmy Kimmel suspension "government coercion"

"After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level," Obama said.

Axios

The FCC Should Let Jimmy Kimmel Be

What the Trump administration is doing to late-night comedy is clearly jawboning.

Reason

Brendan Carr Flagrantly Abused His Powers To Cancel Jimmy Kimmel

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," the FCC chairman said, threatening to punish broadcasters for airing the comedian's show.

Reason

Calls grow to boycott ABC owner Disney over Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Critics say ‘authoritarianism isn’t coming – it’s already here’ amid widespread condemnation of talkshow’s suspension

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Jimmy Kimmel, the NRA, and the First Amendment

ABC is free to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's show for whatever reason it wants to (at least unless there's some contractual… The post Jimmy Kimmel, the NRA, and the First Amendment appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension isn’t cancel culture. It’s a five-alarm fire of censorship and capitulation

ANALYSIS: The ‘Free Speech’ crew are at it again, making sure nobody says anything — in their own words — ‘ideologically improper’, writes Holly Baxter

The Independent UK

First Kimmel, then Fallon and Meyers? A veteran TV scholar says late night can’t survive politics anymore — and today’s hosts must ‘tread carefully’

“We may be coming full circle," Robert Thompson of Syracuse University told Fortune, "back to a Carson-style, harmless late night—with NBC the last one standing.”

Fortune

Trump suggests punishing TV networks for ‘negative’ coverage amid outrage over Kimmel suspension

President says Jimmy Kimmel was ‘not a talented person’ as critics decry show’s suspension as an attack on free speech

The Guardian - US

Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert … who is the next to be silenced?

When a regime can use the power of the law to punish speech because it does not like that speech’s content, then speech is not free

The Guardian - US

What to know about the FCC chair who pushed broadcasters to drop Kimmel

FCC chair Brendan Carr pushed local broadcasters to drop Kimmel

Axios

People are threatening to boycott Disney after ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel: 'Let's do to Disney what we did to Target'

Many believe Kimmel's suspension, done in response to comments made about Charlie Kirk's assassination, is a violation of free speech.

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The Independent UK

Newsom takes down Hannity after he claims no ‘prominent conservative’ wanted Kimmel off-air

In July, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he hoped he played ‘a major part’ in late-night hosts losing their shows

The Guardian - US

House Democrats call for FCC chair to quit over Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Hakeem Jeffries and five other leaders accuse Brendan Carr of ‘corrupt abuse of power’ after late-night show suspended

The Independent UK

Kimmel's future hangs in balance after ABC suspends his late-night show over Charlie Kirk comments

Jimmy Kimmel’s television future is hanging in the balance after ABC suspended his late-night show following the host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s killing

The Independent UK

What is Sinclair Broadcasting? The conservative company demanding apology from Jimmy Kimmel over Charlie Kirk

Sinclair Broadcasting Group, the largest ABC affiliate in the country, took offense to Kimmel’s comments about Charlie Kirk

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Donald Trump on cloud nine as Jimmy Kimmel ‘cancelled’ after calling his grieving over Kirk how a ‘four-year-old mourns a goldfish’

The president got what he has wanted for a very long time.

Reason

Did You Ask the FCC If You Can Make That Joke?

Plus: America's cocaine habit, how Charlie Kirk handled South Park, and more...

Axios

Jimmy Kimmel suspension spurs House Democratic leaders to demand FCC chair resign

House Democrats are vowing a "relentless" investigation, stating, "This will not be forgotten."

The Independent UK

Voices: Cancelling Jimmy Kimmel reveals the crude truth about Trump’s definition of free speech

COMMENT : Instead of leaping to the defence of those who seek to speak without fear or favour, the president of the United States is revelling in their demise, says Simon Walters

Newslaundry

ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel show after TV host’s remarks on Charlie Kirk killing

The American Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Corporation, has suspended the late night comedy show Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely.

Euronews

Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show taken off air over remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after his comments on Charlie Kirk's death were deemed offensive. Trump praised ABC's decision.

The Guardian - AU

Late night hosts condemn Trump administration – as it happened

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