Press voices for Jimmy Kimmel
“Freedom of expression? No longer in the USA”
The end of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” could only be the beginning. The German press fears this. The comments on the deduction of the talk show are devastating for US President Trump.
The broadcaster ABC sets the late night show by moderator Jimmy Kimmel After his statements about the alleged murderer of the Christian conservative influencer Charlie Kirk for the time being. This message hits high waves in America and split the political camps.
The murdered Kirk was a big coast of Donald Trump. Opponents of the US President fear that Trump takes the opportunity to settle with his enemies and critics. Trump was pleased with that of Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show and asked to dismiss other shows unpleasant moderators.
The decision of the US broadcaster and Trump’s reaction to this is called on the international press, which is about freedom of expression in the USA worries.
In this way, the press in Germany and Austria reacts to the discontinuation of Jimmy Kimmel’s show
“Southwest press” (Ulm): “For the measure of freedom in one democracy Is there a fairly simple measurement: Where is the limit of the media in dealing with politics? Is it allowed to make critical statements or – in the event of satirical programs – even to mock and expose politicians? (…)
Freedom of expression? Not in the United States anymore: Only only did Trump submit a 15 billion dollar lawsuit against the “New York Times” because she “maliciously” defamed it. Welcome to the dark world of oppressors. “Democracy this in Darkness” is the motto of the “Washington Post”. Donald Trump is just blowing out all the lights. “
“The mirror”: “When it hits Jimmy Kimmel, one of the greatest stars of American television and four-time Oscar host, it can hit everyone. This is the clear message of his deposition by the broadcaster ABC: Anyone who comments in the American public – comedians, journalists, professors – must now be afraid of state repression.
Freedom of expression is attacked by the government itself in the country in which it is firmly anchored in the first constitutional additive. American democracy is now in even greater danger than it already was due to Trump’s authoritarian policy. Because what happened in the Kimmel case is a form of state censorship. “
“T-Online” (Berlin): “The end of Jimmy Kimmers Show is a new deep blow to freedom of expression and press in the United States. And that is only the beginning. The Trump government wants to force the media to line.
The process once again shows how corporations bow when the president displeases the direction. But they probably don’t just buckle. It seems to be much worse: they have enjoyed the boundaries of his power every day with this president who enjoys immunity and that all the powers, including the Supreme Courts, is obviously lost faith in the rule of law. “
The “daily newspaper / taz” (Berlin): “It was for the time being for Kimmel, his show was exposed to Thursday. That sounds a bit friendlier than” dropped “, as the show by Stephen Colbert. But both cases are a gruesome triumph for Donald Trump and a blow to irony, humanity, top entertainment and democracy.”
Germany radio: “The political criticism has always been a central part of the US late night shows-their so-called Opening Monologues have been among sizes such as Jonny Carson important places of criticism of the most powerful since the early years. They make political mistakes, injustices and questionable decisions visible. And they show: As long as you can do about politics-and this day you can laugh at it, so long can everyone do something against this policy.
This makes it indispensable more than ever for an audience of millions. In addition to the personal insults, this should be the biggest thorn in the eye of Donald Trump. “
“The press” (Vienna, Austria): “The 79-year-old (Trump) is thin-skinned: he summarizes criticism as a” majesty insult “. After CBS announced the end of the Late Night Show Stephen Colberts in July, the would-be autocrat on the presidential nettle is now calling for the removal of Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, the Late Night Moders of NBC.
What is currently going on in the United States is nothing less than an attack on the press and freedom of expression that is reminiscent of the dark times of the McCarthy era of the 1950s and the paranoia in the course of the Watergate scandal Richard Nixon. “
Dpa · AFP
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Source: Stern
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