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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/jon-stewart-addresses-jimmy-kimmel-072557388.html
Jon Stewart Addresses Jimmy Kimmel’s Late-Night TV Ouster
Jon Stewart has given the Trump administration a hosing-down, doing so in the driest possible manner.
Stewart and his late-night pals and rivals, including Jimmy Fallon and the outgoing Stephen Colbert, are surely feeling pressure following ABC’s controversial decision this week to “indefinitely” suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live, following comments made during his monologue about Charlie Kirk, the assassinated conservative pundit.
President Donald Trump celebrated that news with a post on Truth Social, and Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr issued his own warning that the authority would revoke the licenses of any network affiliates choosing to air Kimmel’s remarks, which he referred to as “news distortion” and “the sickest conduct possible.”
Once there was an imaginary line that mustn’t be crossed. Now talk-show hosts can see it.
If he was sweating, Stewart wasn’t showing it, as he took hosting duties, a change from his typical schedule, and dissected the situation on The Daily Show — in his own inimitable style.
“We have another fun hilarious, administration-compliant show,” he said at the top of his opening gambit, whilst donning a Republican-approving red tie and wearing a face that was dripping in satire.
Stewart spent a chunk of his opener playing a line-toeing sycophant, referring to Trump as the “great leader,” “sun god” and even “your lordship.”
The Daily Show‘s veteran host is, of course, a master of the double entendre and he can snark with the very best of them.
Though measured, Thursday night’s edition was classic Daily Show. The team let video do the talking, as clips played of conservative talking heads throwing their voices behind the Constitutional right to free speech, but contradicting themselves when they don’t like that speech. Add to that Fox News’ interpretation of the Jan. 6 Capital attack as a “sightseeing” excursion, and future Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth making light on-air about the 2023 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Our great administration has laid out very clear rules on free speech,” remarked Stewart. “Now, some naysayers may argue that this administration’s speech concerns are merely a cynical ploy, a thin gruel of a ruse, a smokescreen to obscure an unprecedented consolidation of power and unitary intimidation, principle-less and coldly antithetical to any experiment in a constitutional republic governance. Some people would say that.” And then, the punchline: “Not me though, I think that it’s great.”
Earlier this month, The Daily Show collected three wins at the Emmy Awards, tying the Comedy Central show’s record for victories in a single year.
Meanwhile, Colbert and Fallon used their own platforms to throw support behind their axed rival.
“Tonight, we are all Jimmy Kimmel,” Colbert said as he opened The Late Show, which too will be scrubbed by CBS next May. “I stand with you and your staff 100 percent,” he added.
Fallon also had a political tone in his opening messages. “Well guys, the big story is that Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC, after pressure from the FCC leaving everyone thinking, ‘WTF,’” Fallon quipped, before his tone changed. “But to be honest with you all, I don’t know what’s going on — no one does. But I do know Jimmy Kimmel, and he is a decent, funny, and loving guy. And I hope he comes back.”
Fallon said he would perform his Tonight Show monologue as he “normally would,” but whenever his jokes involved President Trump, he would be censored by an unseen announcer.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-calls-negative-broadcast-221157853.html
Donald Trump Calls Negative Broadcast News Coverage Of Him “Illegal”
Speaking once again on concerns about free speech following ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, Donald Trump turned to network news coverage of him, calling it “illegal” because of his claim that so much of the reporting is negative on his administration.
Trump cited a report that news coverage of him is “97% bad.”
“They’ll take a great story, and they will make it bad,” Trump said. “See, I think that’s really illegal. Personally. … You are getting free airwaves from the United States government, and you can’t have that.”
He added, “That’s no longer free speech. That’s just cheating, and they cheat. They become really members of the Democrat National Committee. That’s what they are, The networks, in my opinion. They are just offshoots of the Democrat National Committee.”
Trump’s remarks follow one on Thursday, in which he said that, given the negative coverage, “Maybe their license should be taken away.”
Trump has called for networks to lose their broadcast licenses before, but his remarks have drawn a new level of attention in the wake of comments made earlier this week by his FCC chairman, Brendan Carr.
On Benny Johnson’s podcast on Wednesday, Carr commented on the furor over Jimmy Kimmel’s remark about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
In his monologue on Monday, Kimmel said, “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.”
On the podcast, Carr threatened ABC and its affiliates. Carr said that “we can do this the easy way, or these companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
House later, Nexstar announced that it was pulling Kimmel’s show “for the frseeable future.” Soon after that, ABC said that the show would be taken off the air “indefinitely.”
In the two days since then, there has been a backlash to ABC’s decision, with protests outside Disney’s studio in Burbank, while figures including Barack Obama and Michael Eisner have said that corporate executives have to stand up to the Trump administration.
The FCC actually has narrow authority over news content. “The agency is prohibited by law from engaging in censorship or infringing on First Amendment rights of the press,” the agency notes on its website. The rare instances are when broadcasters are found to have engaged in “news distortion.,” and those are only cases where “it can be proven that they have deliberately distorted a factual news report.”
As FCC chair, Carr has targeted the networks and media companies, on issues ranging from their news coverage to diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Trump suggested that more of news coverage should reflect the size of his election win, while claiming that reporting on networks has been “97% bad.” He apparently was citing a report from the Media Research Center, a watchdog group on the right, which claimed in April that 92% of the coverage on the major networks in the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency was negative. MRC said that it looked at “1,841 evaluative statements about the Trump administration.” A Harvard Kennedy School study of Trump’s first 100 days in 2017 found that the tone of his coverage was 80% negative, although it focused not just on networks but some print outlets.
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