With the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, Trump reviews see a campaign to silence them
ABC’s decision to withdraw the end of the spectacle host Jimmy Kimmel from the plane marks what the observers consider an escalation of a campaign by US President Donald Trump and his allies to put pressure on media criticism in silence.
The network announced that it was indefinitely Jimmy Kimmel Live!Just as the recording of the episode of Wednesday evening of the show was about to start, after Kimmel was criticized for a line in a monologue who referred to the man accused of having killed an eminent supporter of Trump Charlie Kirk.
This follows a series of dollars’ prosecution by Trump against the main media, as well as The announcement of CBS that he cancels The Late Show with Stephen ColbertAnother actor who frequently distorts the president.
All this arouses concerns as free-discourse activists that the White House represses the cherished rights of the Americans by exercising financial, legal and regulatory pressures on media companies.
What happened to Kimmel “is part of a model” of the administration trying to punish the media and the media personalities who criticize Trump and his policies, said Conor Fitzpatrick, principal lawyer of the rights and individual expression, an advocacy group based in Washington.
“These are dark times for freedom of expression in the United States,” Fitzpatrick told CBC News in an interview.
President Donald Trump, when he was asked at a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on an ABC decision to withdraw Jimmy Kimmel from the Air, said that Talk -Show’s host said that `a horrible thing ” about Charlie Kirk – but has assigned the decision to` `bad notes ” lack of talent ”.
“This administration believes that they can decide what the public should be able to hear, and this should be afraid of all Americans who appreciate freedom of expression,” said Fitzpatrick.
ABC did not give any reason for his move, but he came a few hours after the president committed by Trump of the Federal Communications Commission, the regulator of the American distribution, castigated Kimmel for having said that many in the Magan movement of Trump tried to represent Kirk’s alleged killer “Like something other than one of them.”
The president of FCC Brendan Carr called the network affiliates to stop ventilating the Kimmel program and launching the idea of inflicting a fine on television stations without understanding or revoking their broadcast licenses.
“ Should have dismiss him a long time ago ”
Trump, who has expressed his desire to dismiss Kimmel for years, denies that the withdrawal of the wave actor is a problem of free-mind.
“Jimmy Kimmel is not a very talented person,” said Trump Thursday in response to the question of a journalist during his State visit to the United Kingdom
“They should have dismissed him a long time ago. You can call this freedom of expression or not; he was dismissed for lack of talent.”
There is no evidence that Kimmel’s talent or the notes of his program have something to do with ABC’s decision to stop the show.
Instead, the media commentators and Trump criticisms connect ABC’s decision directly to put pressure on the Trump administration and call it censorship.
“ It is the control of the word of the State ”
What happened with Kimmel is “to say essentially that any media actor who does not say what Trump wants them to say, about Charlie Kirk or Trump’s policies, will be reduced to silence,” said Connecticut Senator, Chris Murphy, a democrat at a press conference on Thursday.
“It’s censorship. It is state control. It is not America,” said Murphy.
The actor and podcaster Pete Dominick says that the White House “used the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk as an excuse” to muzzle his criticism.
“Make no mistake, it is government’s censorship,” said Dominick Thursday in an interview on CBC News Network. “This is what authoritarianism looks like.”
ABC said on Wednesday that he would stop ventilating Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely! After remarks, the late evening host made Charlie Kirk’s murder following the murder.
ABC and his parent company Disney were “threatened with consequences of a government official,” said the journalist and former speech editor of George W. Bush, David FRUM, on CNN. “It is the repression of the state.”
Before the company announced its decision to draw Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the network, Nexstar Media Group, which has points of sale across the United States, announced that it would no longer broadcast the program on its 32 local affiliates of ABC, qualifying the comments of the actor of “offensive and insensitive”.
Trump has personally launched a series of high legal proceedings that criticism has criticized as frivolous attempts to stifle legitimate journalism:
Primordial announced a regulation In this trial in July, engaging at $ 16 million in the United States at the future Trump’s presidential library.
Two weeks later, CBS announced its intention to cancel Colbert’s program, and a week after that, the The FCC approved the American merger of $ 8.4 billion in paramount With Skydance Media.
“”We have to straighten the press“Said Trump last December in response to questions about the other proceedings he had brought against the media before his inauguration.
Less than a month after Trump took office, the administration Reporters banned from the Associated Press Access to Oval Office events after the largest thread service in the country refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” in its stories. Trump had made an executive decree to change the name.
Earlier this week, even before Kimmel’s show was kidnapped, the militants of freedom of disposition expressed their concerns concerning the efforts of the Trump administration and his allies to the commentary of the police on Kirk, a controversial conservative activist at the time which has also firmly defended the right to freedom of speech.
The plea group Pen America described a “repression of McCarthy-Esque against freedom of expression” in the wake of the murder of Kirk.
The representatives of the high -ranking government “landed the flames of this campaign and proposed to use the power of their offices to punish free thought,” Pen Jonathan Friedman and Elly Brinkley said in a Online comment.
“They used Kirk’s murder as a pretext to repress the discourse in clear violation of the first amendment.”
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