Update on Disney and ABC Boycott
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On September 17th, Disney-ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air—just hours after the FCC Chair Brendan Carr suggested retaliatory action against broadcasters following Kimmel’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer. Make no mistake: this is what creeping authoritarianism looks like—media silenced and censored for daring to dissent. It comes only months after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was cancelled following the president’s complaints, and now Trump is publicly calling for Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers to be “next.”
In response to these threats, many of you took direct action. You cancelled your Disney+ subscription. You demanded Kimmel be reinstated. Now, Chairman Carr has walked back some of his comments and Kimmel is back on the air, though not yet on Nexstar-owned and Sinclair-owned stations, on which Kimmel is continuing to be preempted. The lesson from this cannot be more clear: boycotts work. Because of the reinstatement by ABC, we are no longer asking people to boycott Disney. However, we ask people to stay primed about other threats to our liberties and be ready to take action again when necessary.
In the meantime, we can help support our national partners, who are keeping the pressure on Sinclair and Nexstar by boycotting their local affiliate stations. Here in Massachusetts, we don’t have a good local target owned by these conglomerates; but if you know anyone living in Sinclair and Nexstar markets out-of-state, ask them to boycott their stations and demand local advertisers pull dollars from Sinclair until they end the preempt on Kimmel!
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