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Kimmel’s Suspension Is Another Shameless Media Capitulation To Trump
Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension by ABC is another example of both media capitulation to President Trump and the administration’s war on the press, say Kathy Roberts Ford, a journalism professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and TNR contributor Ana Marie Cox. In the latest edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon, the two explain why Kimmel’s suspension is so alarming. They connected it to Trump’s lawsuits against The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times as well as his administration’s use of regulatory authority to pressure media companies. They emphasized that media organizations…
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