The Television Critics Association became the latest Hollywood organization to speak out in defense of Jimmy Kimmel early Friday morning, while also condemning ABC for succumbing to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism.
“The Walt Disney Company’s capitulation to the demands of the FCC chair this week represents a wanton disregard of the First Amendment’s guarantee to a right for people and the press to speak without government retribution,” the group of nearly 250 critics said in a statement. “The government attempting to punish creatives, writers and/or journalists for speech that officials do not like is authoritarianism. Corporations that profit from the words of television stars, writers and journalists…
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