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Eagerly Falling in Line
Disney isn't "terrified" -- they just want to make money
mister mix
September 18, 2025
“I think that it’s really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney and say, ‘Listen, we are going to preempt, we are not going to run Kimmel anymore, until you straighten this out because we, we licensed broadcaster, are running the possibility of fines or license revocation from the FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion,’” [FCC Chair] Carr said Wednesday, speaking with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr added. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
The decisions by Nexstar and ABC to silence Kimmel, over relatively innocuous comments, is the latest sign of how terrified major corporations and media companies have grown of the second Trump administration. The president and his lieutenants have made clear that they’re willing to leverage the full weight of the federal government against networks and their parent companies, especially if TV personalities or comedians on the network say things that annoy Trump.
I’m not buying that fear was the reason this happened. Big media companies have lawyers at their disposal who can spend time and effort litigating the obviously illegal Trump administration efforts to silence Kimmel. They just don’t want to do it. These executives don’t like what he’s saying and have taken this opportunity to silence him.
We’re living in a world where pretty words come cheap and brave action is hard to come by. University administrators, media moguls, Democratic leadership and members of the bar found it easy to pledge to do the right thing when the right thing was easy. Now that it’s difficult, they’re showing their true colors. University administrators always found protesting students annoying. Media chiefs would rather fill their outlets with anodyne pablum than have commenters who might offend anyone. Democratic establishment politicians would rather have status quo than risk losing their position to fight MAGA. And members of big law firms, as well as the state bars, would rather watch their institutions become a joke than do something about it.
It’s 1938 and things are getting steadliy worse.
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