{"id":30564,"date":"2025-09-19T00:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30564\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:52:07","slug":"what-jimmy-kimmel-being-taken-off-air-means-for-free-speech-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30564\/","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":30565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-30564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}