Article 707DX This is part of Disney’s legacy now

This is part of Disney’s legacy now

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Charles Pulliam-Moore
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When Disney-owned ABC put Jimmy Kimmel Live on indefinite suspension, the broadcaster's logic was easy to understand: Kimmel's joke - a riff on the way Donald Trump started talking about construction on the White House's new ballroom after being asked how he felt about Charlie Kirk being shot - was mild. But the bit prompted Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr to threaten pulling the broadcast licenses of any stations that continued to air Kimmel's late-night show.

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr said in an interview with right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson. "These companies can find wa ...

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