{"id":3929,"date":"2025-09-18T18:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/18\/what-the-move-to-pull-kimmel-off-the-air-says-about-free-speech-under-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:18:03","slug":"what-the-move-to-pull-kimmel-off-the-air-says-about-free-speech-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/18\/what-the-move-to-pull-kimmel-off-the-air-says-about-free-speech-under-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"What the move to pull Kimmel off the air says about free speech under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The political fallout from the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk continues. Wednesday, Disney suddenly suspended ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live&#8221; following comments Kimmel made about how President Trump\u2019s supporters were responding to the killing. That suspension was cheered by Trump and his allies, but also raised censorship concerns. William Brangham discussed more with Dylan Byers of Puck.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political fallout from the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk continues. Wednesday, Disney suddenly suspended ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live&#8221; following comments Kimmel made about how President Trump\u2019s supporters were responding to the killing. That suspension was cheered by Trump and his allies, but also raised censorship concerns. William Brangham discussed more with Dylan Byers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}