{"id":22788,"date":"2025-09-20T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22788"},"modified":"2025-09-20T20:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:26:51","slug":"a-crackdown-on-dissent-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22788","title":{"rendered":"A Crackdown on Dissent &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">This week, ABC pulled the comedian Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s talk show off the air over remarks he made related to Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination. The suspension followed comments from Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, about Kimmel. \u201cThe message from the FCC is clear,\u201d Vivian Salama, the guest moderator for Washington Week With The Atlantic, said last night: \u201cThe rules for engagement are changing.\u201d Panelists joined to discuss this, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cYou can\u2019t see this in isolation,\u201d Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House correspondent at <em>The New York Times<\/em>, noted. \u201cReally, since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, what we\u2019ve seen is a much broader crackdown from this administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Joining Salama, the guest moderator and an <em>Atlantic<\/em> staff writer, to discuss this and more: Kanno-Youngs; Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent at <em>Puck<\/em>; and Asma Khalid, a co-host of the <em>Global Story<\/em> podcast at BBC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Watch the full episode here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, ABC pulled the comedian Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s talk show off the air over remarks he made related to Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination. The suspension followed comments from Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, about Kimmel. \u201cThe message from the FCC is clear,\u201d Vivian Salama, the guest moderator for Washington Week With The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1671,3095,5007],"class_list":{"0":"post-22788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-atlantic","9":"tag-crackdown","10":"tag-dissent"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}