The Trump Administration’s Latest Attack on ABC Is Different

In September, FCC Chair Brendan Carr dangled a simple threat: Either ABC would ‘take action’ against Jimmy Kimmel, or there would be consequences. The network promptly gave in—‘Great News,’ President Trump wrote at the time—suspending Kimmel’s late-night show only to reinstate it a few days later amid public backlash. Yesterday, just 24 hours after the president and the first lady publicly demanded that Kimmel be fired, the FCC went after the network once again, ordering an early review of all broadcast licenses owned by ABC’s parent company, Disney.

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