FCC Chair Revels as MAGA TV Conglomerate Refuses to Air Jimmy Kimmel
With Jimmy Kimmel Live! Back in the air Tuesday evening, the president of the Federal Communications Commission jaw ABC and companies that have its stations in the censorship of Jimmy Kimmel cannot help weighing on the case.
While ABC informed his decision on Monday to cancel the program, Sinclair Broadcast Group, followed by Nexstar Media Group, announced that they would not broadcast the program on the approximately 70 ABC affiliates owner across the country between them.
The companies first produced Kimmel’s show last week, after the president of the FCC, Brendan Carr, threatened those who platform the actor after a joke he made about the response of Trump and Maga at the death of Charlie Kirk. The two companies have business before the FCC, which helps to explain their rapid and continuous capitulation in Carr. (Nexstar pursues a merger of several billion dollars which would extend its range to 80% of the country’s television households – such a large number that it would be necessary FCC to raise the scope of companies limiting existing companies of 39%.)
Carr, who spent last week trying to paint the incident as something other than a patent example of a government official applying pressure to influence private decision -making, was delighted with the news that Sinclair and Nexstar will not change their position.
Carr went to X to unleash against the Senator of the Democratic State Scott Wiener, who reacted to the news of the decision of Sinclair to keep Kimmel censored despite the reversal of ABC by proposal Break the massive conglomerate. “The consolidation of corporate media does not accumulate with democracy,” wrote Wiener, in an article published before Nexstar follows the traces of Sinclair.
Carr supported This Wiener declaration has shown that it is the Democrats – not the Republicans – who are censored. Nexstar and Sinclair, he said, had decided independently that Kimmel’s suspension “made sense”.
Hop replied by disbelief To the hypocrisy of the President of the FCC: “Do you hear people?”
Carr pulled another tweet, in which he tried to describe the incident – in which two of the largest media conglomerates in the country and who never consolidated themselves, take a truck to an agency they need – as a story of comforting overflow. The Democrats, he said, “just can’t bear that local television channels – for the first time in years – have taken a national programmer” in ABC.
