Regarding the network itself, ABC owner Disney will need “the Trump administration’s greenlight for ESPN’s deal to buy the NFL Network,” notes Deadline.
Not a great look, whatever the personal or commercial aspects of the decision to suspend Kimmel.
The protest
Given all this background, it is perhaps inevitable that we would see a strong backlash to Kimmel’s suspension. Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, for instance, took to X to ask his former company:
Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment? The “suspending indefinitely”
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