{"id":154082,"date":"2025-09-19T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154082\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:55:07","slug":"what-jimmy-kimmel-being-taken-off-air-means-for-free-speech-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154082\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jimmy Kimmel being taken off air means for free speech in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">TV host Jimmy Kimmel has been pulled off air indefinitely after comments he made about the shooting of Charlie Kirk, ABC has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The decision came hours after Brendan Carr, chair of broadcast regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said Jimmy Kimmel was &#8220;appearing to directly mislead the American public&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Leading Democrats call Kimmel&#8217;s suspension an attack on free speech and &#8220;an abuse of power&#8221;, while US President Donald Trump welcomed it as &#8220;great news for America&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The BBC&#8217;s analysis editor Ros Atkins examines the role of the FCC and  Trump in the decision to suspend the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Video produced by Michael Cox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV host Jimmy Kimmel has been pulled off air indefinitely after comments he made about the shooting of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-154082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}