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Trump Tightens his Grip on the Media: Jimmy Kimmel, The New York Times, and so on.

A president shouldn’t be allowed to use defamation to suppress criticism of him. Big businesses likely to surrender to this shouldn’t be allowed to buy major media.

Robert Reich
Sep 18, 2025
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Friends,

On Thursday, Trump threatened to revoke broadcasting licenses of networks whose late-night hosts speak negatively about him.

“They’re giving me all this bad press, and they’re getting a license,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, after ABC suspended the late-night Jimmy Kimmel live show. “I would think maybe their license should be take…

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