{"id":37724,"date":"2025-09-25T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/37724\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:50:07","slug":"directors-guild-of-america-tells-members-to-report-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/37724\/","title":{"rendered":"Directors Guild of America Tells Members to Report Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThough Jimmy Kimmel is now back on the air, the Directors Guild of America<\/a> isn\u2019t acting like this instance of a Hollywood corporation apparently bowing to political pressure will be a one-off.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the wake of Disney\u2019s brief suspension of the late-night host amid tough talk from the head of the Federal Communications Commission, the union is encouraging members to report any instances where they feel they are being censored. In a message to members on Tuesday, new union president Christopher Nolan<\/a> and national executive director Russell Hollander said they believed \u201cthese issues go beyond the suspension of one late night program.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe union leaders added, \u201cThe Guild remains committed to protecting your artistic and creative rights in a time when a growing list of companies are capitulating to government pressure to censor creative expression and suppress speech that is critical of the current administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe labor group, which bargains on behalf of around 19,500 members on the directing team, from A-listers like Ryan Coogler and Martin Scorsese to unit production managers, stage managers and assistant directors, created an email address (appropriately, it\u2019s \u201cfightcensorship@dga.org\u201d) for members to contact when they feel their creative rights might be in jeopardy. The union says it wants to \u201ctrack the impact of this trend on employment in our industry and inform you of your rights under the contract.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIt continued, \u201cYour feedback will be essential in developing a longer-term strategy to push back against efforts to monitor and control creative expression. We know this is a fight that right now feels overwhelming. But this is exactly the kind of fight our Guild was created for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe DGA was one of several Hollywood unions<\/a> to quickly clap back at Disney for pulling Kimmel from the air on Sept. 17. The decision came after FCC chair Brendan Carr, who took issue with remarks Kimmel made regarding right-wing activist Charlie Kirk\u2019s killing, appeared to threaten<\/a> ABC affiliate licenses if broadcasters continue to air Kimmel. \u201cWhen we see stuff like this, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way,\u201d Carr said in a YouTube interview. \u201cThese companies can find ways to change conduct, on Kimmel, or there\u2019s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe next day, in a joint statement with a couple of other industry unions, the DGA called the incident \u201cpart of a disturbing trend of increasing interference in creative expression.\u201d The statement added, \u201cThis kind of political pressure on broadcasters and artists chills free speech and threatens the livelihoods of thousands of working Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe union\u2019s national board made the decision to create this censorship hotline during its meeting last Saturday, as Kimmel was in talks with Disney to return to the air. The DGA has long put an emphasis on its members\u2019 creative rights, whether that\u2019s requiring that directors be consulted on every script revision in pre-production or giving TV directors more leeway in postproduction. <\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel\u2019s show returned to ABC<\/a> on Tuesday. Two major station owners, Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcast Group, still are preempting his program<\/a> from their airwaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though Jimmy Kimmel is now back on the air, the Directors Guild of America isn\u2019t acting like this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24900,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-37724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-directors-guild-of-america","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}