{"id":2047499,"date":"2025-09-24T22:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2047499"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:20:02","slug":"more-than-100-former-abc-news-employees-call-on-disney-ceo-bob-iger-to-make-clear-network-will-not-be-silenced-or-intimidated-by-political-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/more-than-100-former-abc-news-employees-call-on-disney-ceo-bob-iger-to-make-clear-network-will-not-be-silenced-or-intimidated-by-political-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 100 Former ABC News Employees Call On Disney CEO Bob Iger To Make Clear Network \u201cWill Not Be Silenced Or Intimidated By Political Pressure\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 100 former ABC News<\/a> employees, including Sam Donaldson<\/a>, Tom Bettag<\/a> and Judy Muller<\/a>, have signed on to a letter urging Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger<\/a> to step it up when it comes to publicly defending journalists under political attacks and the company itself against government pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to acknowledge and commend your decision to reinstate Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>\u2019s show,\u201d the ABC News employees wrote in the letter, first reported by celebrity.land<\/a>. \u201cIt was the right call and an important statement that political intimidation should not dictate ABC\u2019s programming. This action reflects the values that have long defined The Walt Disney Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYet, it must be just the first step in a concerted effort to defend free speech and press freedom against political intimidation. The $16 million settlement with Donald Trump<\/a>, combined with the absence of a strong public defense of ABC News journalists under attack, has emboldened…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 100 former ABC News employees, including Sam Donaldson, Tom Bettag and Judy Muller, have signed on to a letter urging Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger to step it up when it comes to publicly defending journalists under political attacks and the company itself against government pressure. \u201cWe want to acknowledge and commend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2047500,"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-2047499","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\/More-Than-100-Former-ABC-News-Employees-Call-On-Disney.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047499","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=2047499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}