{"id":168680,"date":"2025-09-25T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168680\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:12:08","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-free-speech-and-big-money-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168680\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel, free speech and big money media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/frontburner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Front Burner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel might be back but worries about free speech and press freedom continue.<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Sep 25, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A man in a blue-and-red striped tie and suit appears on stage.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758816728_919_jimmy-kimmel.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>An image released by Disney shows Jimmy Kimmel hosting his late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Los Angeles on Sept. 23, 2025. (Randy Holmes\/Disney\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>Front BurnerJimmy Kimmel, free speech and big money media<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After a brief suspension for comments he made in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, Jimmy Kimmel has made his return to late night.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was just the latest example in a string of cancellations, resignations, lawsuits, settlements and potential mergers that tell the story of a media industry buckling to Trump or consolidating under a wealthy and powerful few, many of whom are friendly with the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Eoin Higgins, independent reporter and author of &#8220;Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left&#8221; joins us to talk about the bigger story of what&#8217;s happening with American media and the changes still to come.<\/p>\n<p>For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit:\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/frontburner\/transcripts\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/frontburner\/transcripts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Front Burner on your favourite podcast app.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/front-burner\/id1439621628?mt=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1qL9keKtruUmZ1hPkhHZL1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLeyJPHbRnGaaAgINkiIQmNjTVRMB8RGI9&amp;si=g4Vxmp8msAKhGPPh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Front Burner Jimmy Kimmel might be back but worries about free speech and press freedom continue. CBC News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-168680","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\/168680","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=168680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}