Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air last night, But if your ABC local affiliate belonged to Nexstar or Sinclair, you have not seen it, because the two company giants continued to refuse air Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The Democrats of the Chamber’s Supervisory Committee led by representatives Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Maxwell Frost (D-FL) want answers.
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Legislators wrote At the Chair and CEO of Nexstar:
We are specifically concerned about the fact that the actions of Nexstar and Sinclair show a disturbing desire to line up on the side of the administration by silencing your creative outlets to appease the president. In your press release, your statement that Mr. Kimmel’s declaration was “deeply insensitive to a critical moment for our country”, and therefore worthy of the cancellation of the program is a bad characterization of Kimmel’s points of view. press, do not manage the tirades of the current president.
The representative Garcia had more to say about the president of FCC Brendan Carr during an appearance on MSNBC:
Democratic representatives seem to be right. What is happening here is that two major companies that combined hundreds of local television stations work with the Trump administration to achieve the president’s goal of silencing his criticism.
The president of FCC Carr will appear before the congress at a given time, and he will have to justify this illegal violation of the first amendment.
Democrats know where the pressure point on this scandal is. The administration can ignore the Democrats in the congress until they regret all or a certain control of the congress and that the power of assignment.
The weak links are the two companies that still refuse to broadcast Kimmel. These companies cannot keep forever, or they will be out of contract with ABC, but the co-conspirators must be held responsible for their actions, and the Democrats maintain the pressure on those who choose to put themselves on the side of Trump on the right to freedom of expression.
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