The indefinite suspension by the ABC Television Network of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” — officially concluding Tuesday (9/23) — is what the associate dean of academic affairs and Boston College Law School professor Daniel Lyons says “is part of a long, unfortunate FCC tradition of ‘regulation by raised eyebrow,’ where informal threats shape media behavior without formal action.”
That dynamic “underscores the risks inherent in having a communications regulator,” he argues, concluding that any intervention by the Commission led by Chairman Brendan Carr is difficult to see as “anything other than a violation of the spirit of the First Amendment.”
