• punchmesan@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    Jimmy Kimmel made a comment about how the MAGA gang was spinning the shooting of Charlie Kirk as a politically-motivated assassination by “Democrats”, when the shooter themselves was part of said MAGA gang and was not, in actual fact, a Democrat.

    In response, the FCC threatened ABC and encouraged TV broadcast stations to exclude their programming, and so ABC indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show in response.

    That just about sums it up briefly.

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      3 hours ago

      Additionally, ABC is owned by Disney.

      Probably obvious but the idea was missing a key component assuming it’s not common knowledge