Source: The American Prospect
by Paul Starr
“Two developments have raised to a new level the long conservative drive to control American culture. President Trump and his aides have declared that they will use all the tools federal power gives them to silence criticism in the media, and MAGA-aligned billionaires have bought major media outlets and begun moving them to the right. The most stunning development is the decision by ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel in the wake of threats by Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC stations because of Kimmel’s comments about the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. President Trump then made clear this was no one-off case. He said that the major TV networks had been overwhelmingly ‘negative’ about him and suggested that ‘maybe their license should be taken away.'” (09/22/25)
https://prospect.org/power/2025-09-22-capture-media-control-culture-trump-kimmel/