{"id":37285,"date":"2025-09-22T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/37285\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:35:07","slug":"jimmy-kimmels-show-to-return-to-air-after-suspension-over-charlie-kirk-comments-says-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/37285\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s show to return to air after suspension over Charlie Kirk comments, says Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimmel appeared to mislead the public &#8211; regulatorpublished at 21:20 BST<\/p>\n<p>21:20 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b6f7e387-b458-45be-b486-e5883aa372a4.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3504\" height=\"1971\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week, the head of the US broadcast regulator said Jimmy Kimmel was &#8220;appearing to directly mislead the American public&#8221; with his comments about Charlie Kirk&#8217;s killer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said Kimmel&#8217;s comments were &#8220;not a joke&#8221;, or &#8220;making fun&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked whether the FCC was trying to censor Trump&#8217;s critics, Carr said channels with a &#8220;broadcast TV licence&#8221; had a bigger responsibility than, for example, podcasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carr was also asked about his previous comments that the government shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;censor&#8221; speech it didn&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said broadcasters with a license are free &#8220;to go on the internet and do whatever they want&#8221;, but added that &#8220;if they want to keep access to those valuable airwaves, I&#8217;ve been clear, we&#8217;re reinvigorating the FCC&#8217;s enforcement of public interest&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimmel appeared to mislead the public &#8211; regulatorpublished at 21:20 BST 21:20 BST Image source, Reuters Last week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-37285","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\/37285","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=37285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}