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The FCC is reviewing ABC’s licenses. The message is clear. - Poynter

Poynter·Tom Jones·about 1 month ago
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This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. And there it is. One day after President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump called for ABC to punish late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over a joke they didn’t like, the Federal Communications Commission made the extraordinary and troubling move to review all station licenses owned by ABC. Officially, the filing is to investigate whether Disney, the owner of ABC, violated any discrimination rules with its diversity and inclusion policies. But the timing made it perfectly clear what this is about: going after Kimmel and ABC for something Kimmel said on his show last week. It was last Thursday, during a sketch about the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, when Kimmel said that Melania Trump had the glow of an “expectant widow.” Kimmel’s comments came two days before the WHCA dinner was shut down when a gunman tried to enter the event.…

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