{"id":40689,"date":"2025-09-24T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40689\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:06:09","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-blasts-fccs-carr-for-abandoning-free-speech-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40689\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Blasts FCC\u2019s Carr for Abandoning Free-Speech Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">One of Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s main targets during his return to TV was Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, whom the late-night host accused of abandoning free-speech principles and being \u201cembarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Kimmel pointed to comments Carr had made earlier in his career defending political satire as an important form of free speech, and said the chairman\u2019s effort to push him off the air violated the US Constitution. He also questioned Carr\u2019s intelligence for urging stations to cancel Kimmel\u2019s show so publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s main targets during his return to TV was Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[28190,18506,2046,15583,156,29279,220,1073,111,139,69,640,36779,437,15581,28172],"class_list":["post-40689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-brendan-carr","tag-c-suite","tag-career","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-markets","tag-media","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-regulation","tag-ted-cruz","tag-tv","tag-u-s-republicans","tag-walt-disney-co-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40689","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=40689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}