{"id":2034425,"date":"2025-09-19T13:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2034425"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:26:05","slug":"trumps-attack-on-abc-is-illegal-it-might-not-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/trumps-attack-on-abc-is-illegal-it-might-not-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Attack on ABC Is Illegal. It Might Not Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The chain of events that led to ABC\u2019s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> unfolded unusually fast. It started with a thinly-veiled threat from Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr<\/a> that his agency might take action against the network over accusations that the late night host mischaracterized the politics of the man who allegedly killed Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can do this the easy way or the hard way,\u201d he said to right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson<\/a>. \u201cThese companies can find ways to change conduct, on Kimmel, or there\u2019s going to be additional work for the FCC<\/a> ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within five hours, Nextstar, an owner of ABC affiliate stations around the country, said that it would pre-empt the show \u201cfor the foreseeable future.\u201d Minutes later, ABC pulled it indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Since the start of his second term, President Trump<\/a> has used every lever of government to fight back against what he considers conservative bias…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The chain of events that led to ABC\u2019s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! unfolded unusually fast. It started with a thinly-veiled threat from Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr that his agency might take action against the network over accusations that the late night host mischaracterized the politics of the man who allegedly killed Charlie Kirk. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2034426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2034425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Trumps-Attack-on-ABC-Is-Illegal-It-Might-Not-Matter.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2034426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}