Through his social networks, the former president of the United States referred to the situation that the renowned presenter is going after his sayings about the death of Charlie Kirk.
The former president Barack Obama He intervened on ABC’s decision to withdraw Jimmy Kimmel of its programming for an indefinite time, warning that the administration of Donald Trump He had taken the cancellation culture to “a new and dangerous level.”
In X, Obama published: “After years of complaining about the culture of cancellation, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory measures against media companies unless they give up or fire journalists and commentators who do not like it.”
“This is precisely the type of government coercion that the first amendment was designed to prevent, and media companies must begin to defend themselves instead of capitulating before it.”
The suspension of the Jimmy Kimmel program
On Wednesday, ABC announced that Kimmel’s program would stop issuing indefinitely. This happened hours after the president of the FCC, Brendan Carr, threatened the chain and his stations with take action if no measures were taken. Carr had harshly criticized a Kimmel comment during his Monday monologue: “We had new minimums over the weekend with the band Maga desperately trying to this boy who murdered Charlie Kirk as more than one of them, and doing everything possible to get political party.”
In Benny Johnson’s podcast, Carr condemned the comment and said: “We can do this in the easy way, or these companies can find ways to change their behavior, to take measures, frankly, on Kimmel, or there will be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Obama was invited to the Kimmel program when he was president and appeared with him and the then president Joe Biden in a question and answers session and in a fund collection event for the campaign in Los Angeles in June 2024.
Source: Ambito
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