The band supports the TV presenter after the dismissal of its show discussion about censorship broke out
After the late night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” was discontinued about Kimmel’s criticism of media reporting on the killing of the right-wing extremist influencers Charlie Kirk, countless people were expressed in the net. Most recently, U2 also stood on the side of the moderator.
Recommendations of the editorial team
According to TV comment, concern for freedom of expression grows
On the evening of September 15, the late night host Jimmy Kimmel commented on the killing of Charlie Kirk. He indicated that the alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, was a Republican Maga supporter and Trump supporter. Kimmel said: “The Maga gang tries desperately, this guy who murdered Charlie Kirk than presenting anything but one of them, and they try everything to make political capital from it.” Only a short time later, the TV network ABC announced that the late night show was discontinued for an indefinite period of pressure from the US media supervisory authority (FCC).
On September 21, U2 published an idea of her visit to Kimmel’s talk show in 2017 on Instagram. Under the post, they wrote: “To support the right to freedom of expression, from left to right, from good to bad to bad. From not so great to inspiring … and especially for laughing. What is the evidence of freedom.”
U2 show solidarity with Kimmel on Instagram:
Prominent voices demand return from “Jimmy Kimmel Live”
In addition to U2, some well -known people, including actress Wanda Sykes or Ben Stiller, were outraged by the setting of the program. Late night show colleague David Letterman and Stephen Colbert also spoke up and solidarized with Jimmy Kimmel. In his show on September 19, Colbert told his audience: “You can’t give in a centimeter.” He dedicated the evening show Kimmel and his team: “Jimmy, I am 100 percent behind you and your employees.”
And while the deputy chief of staff of the White House described the discontinuation of the late night show, for example, as an example of a “culture of consequences”, the democratic Senator Ed brandy attested the procedure as “censorship in action”. Nevertheless, the Podcaster Marc Maron also describes the procedure as a state interference with freedom of expression. On Instagram he wrote: “This is the Trump government that is going against people who speak against him.”
Talks about the possible return of the show run
Allegedly, Kimmel’s legal and business representatives have talks with ABC and his parent company Disney, hoping to make a return of “Jimmy Kimmel Live”. It remains to be seen whether Kimmel would be ready to step in front of the camera.