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ABC's abrupt suspension of talk show host Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Federal Communications Commission is the latest demonstration of the power U.S. President Donald Trump wields to bend media, entertainment and digital platforms to his will, as he uses political pressure to mute criticism and punish institutions he sees as biased against him.
The move, which came after Kimmel's remarks about the accused killer of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has jolted the U.S. media and entertainment industries and intensified free-speech fears as the Trump-appointed FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcast licenses from stations that carry what he called "garbage."
Major media and tech companies are now controlled by Trump supporters or billionaire business leaders who lined up behind Trump during his inauguration, donated to his inaugural fund, or visited the White House bearing gifts. Billionaire GOP donor Larry Ellison's Oracle is part of a consortium of investors with the inside track to take control of the U.S. operations of the video-sharing platform TikTok.
This week, the Trump administration announced it had agreed to a framework for a deal with China that would allow the sale of TikTok's U.S. assets to continue to operate in the U.S. Companies such as CBS, Meta Platforms, and the editorial pages of the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times have made editorial or operational changes following Trump's re-election in ways that lay the groundwork for less adversarial coverage of the president.
“There is a continued lurch to the right throughout much of our major media in the United States right now,” said Victor Pickard, professor of media policy and political economy at the Annenberg School of Communication at University of Pennsylvania. “I expect to see more of this to come. There's no countervailing force against it.”
The decision Wednesday night is the second time since Trump's re-election that ABC parent company Walt Disney has taken action in response to on-air comments. In December, ABC News agreed to give $15 million to Trump's presidential library to settle a lawsuit Trump had filed over remarks that anchor George Stephanopoulos made involving sex abuse claims brought against Trump by writer E. Jean Carroll.
"They're all terrified," said Steve Kroft, who was a longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent, specifically citing the nightly broadcast news. "The thing that scares me the most about this administration is this retaliatory mindset, to go after its enemies. And I think they're clearly going after the news people. That's the top of their list.”
Disney declined to comment.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said Trump supports free speech and an uncensored internet.
"Jimmy Kimmel's terrible product isn't a free speech problem; it's a talent problem," she said.
Pressure on traditional media comes after conservatives successfully pushed digital platforms to pare back content moderation which they portrayed as biased. Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, which had banned Trump for “incitement of violence” after the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, pand promised to restore "free speech" to the platform. Renamed X, Musk eliminated its Trust and Safety team in favor of a system that allows its users to fact-check posts, and restored accounts of conservatives who previously had violated Twitter's policies.
Content on the platform has become more right-leaning since the acquisition, according to research from Queensland University. Meta Platforms disbanded its third-party fact-checking programme in the United States, changes that affected Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
The company elected Dana White, a Trump ally and the chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, to its board, and elevated prominent Republican policy executive Joel Kaplan as global affairs head.
"We've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship. It's time to get back to our roots around free expression," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in January.
Beyond broadcast licenses, media mergers involving local broadcasters require the FCC's blessing. The son of longtime Trump supporter Larry Ellison, David Ellison, helped secure regulatory approval for his company Skydance Media to buy Paramount, with the promise that the CBS network would reflect the “varied ideological perspectives” of American viewers. Prior to the deal, Paramount paid $16 million to settle a 2024 lawsuit Trump filed over a “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris, which he claimed gave a distorted view of his rival for the White House.
The FCC has said the settlement and regulatory review were unrelated. Last week, the company announced the appointment of its new ombudsman, Kenneth R. Weinstein, a former president and CEO of the conservative Hudson Institute.
Paramount is reported to be in talks to acquire The Free Press and bring founder Bari Weiss into a leadership role at CBS News. The former New York Times opinion writer built a national following by challenging what she views as the illiberal left and “wokism.” Now Paramount is preparing a bid to acquire Warner Bros Discovery, home to CNN, while Larry Ellison's cloud giant Oracle is in play to buy TikTok, which would put a key communication tool that reaches 170 million Americans in the hands of a conservative billionaire.
When asked about allegations of a right-leaning shift at CBS, a spokeswoman for parent-company Paramount directed Reuters to CEO David Ellison's previous comments about the network's political neutrality. "We're an entertainment company first," Ellison has said. "Everyone - left, right, young, old - is its audience. I'm not going to be in the position of making political statements about anything."
Disney was attempting to find a way to defuse the social media backlash against Kimmel's comments when the FCC's Carr turned up the heat.
The regulator said Kimmel misled viewers about the alleged shooter's affiliation with Trump's Make America Great Again movement, and urged local stations to push back, raising the possibility of the FCC revoking the broadcast licenses of local television stations that did not comply.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said in an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday.
ABC pulled Kimmel off the air after Nexstar Media Group, the largest owner of broadcast stations in the U.S., decided to preempt the show in the wake of his comments about Kirk. Sinclair, the nation's largest owner of ABC-affiliated TV stations, followed suit.
Several ABC affiliates ran a Charlie Kirk special on Friday in Kimmel's regular time slot. Nexstar will need the FCC's approval to complete its announced $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna, the owner of 64 television stations and exceed the agency's regulatory cap on station ownership.
"The decision to preempt 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' was made unilaterally by the senior executive team at Nexstar," said Gary Weitman, the company's chief communications officer. "And they had no communication with the FCC or any government agency prior to making that decision.”
Trump has used the courts to attack major media outlets over unflattering coverage. He has filed nine media-related civil suits since 2020, including a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times and book publisher Penguin Random House filed this week, and a $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal in July.
The Journal has said the lawsuit is meritless. The Times said Trump's lawsuit has no legitimate legal claims and is an attempt to stifle and discourage independent reporting. A federal judge on Friday struck the Times lawsuit over its content, saying that a complaint is not "a public forum for vituperation and invective" or "a protected platform to rage against an adversary" and gave Trump 28 days to file an amended complaint.
First Amendment scholars see the moves, taken together, as a broad attempt to suppress free speech in America. “The Trump administration is becoming increasingly brazen in its abuse of government power to silence its critics,” said Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, in a statement.
Even as some conservatives have targeted Kirk critics, others have also expressed concern about the use of government power to suppress speech.
“During the Biden administration, conservatives rightly complained when the government went after their speech,” said David Inserra, a fellow for free expression and technology at the Cato Institute. “But now the Trump administration is using many of the same arguments to justify censorship.”
Published - September 22, 2025 08:42 am IST
technology (general) / internet / Artificial Intelligence
Source: The Hindu
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