\n\tYou know how media figures make fun of Fox News when they ignore a huge story that makes President Trump look bad?<\/p>\n
\n\tSomething similar seemed to happen during The View<\/a> on Thursday, which ignored the biggest media story in the country \u2014 Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live! being suspended<\/a> following the host\u2019s controversial comments about the suspect in Charlie Kirk<\/a>\u2018s fatal shooting.<\/p>\n \n\tThe View panel was dead silent on the blockbuster controversy in their own network\u2019s backyard. The show panel instead devoted their time to riveting topics such as Kash Patel\u2019s congressional hearing and a discussion of RFK Jr.<\/p>\n \n\tA source close to the show insists the panel was not forbidden from discussing Kimmel. It\u2019s admittedly possible the panelists opted to self-censor during a period of internal crisis, as it\u2019s difficult to imagine they didn\u2019t find the topic compelling enough to discuss.<\/p>\n \n\tPreviously, the panel had plenty to say about Stephen Colbert\u2019s The Late Show being canceled next year by CBS amid Colbert\u2019s criticism of Trump during the network parent company\u2019s pending merger with Skydance. But the panel didn\u2019t discuss that news the very next day and instead weighed in only after Colbert addressed it on his show. \u201cIt\u2019s always been the role of the court jester to make fun of the king,\u201d Joy Behar said at the time<\/a>. \u201cThat is the role of comedians. I have said on this show years ago, when they start coming for the comedians, all bets are off. Because the king is supposed to take the hits.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tABC had no comment. The network did briefly cover the news on Good Morning America in a very straightforward manner, though anchor George Stephanopoulos commented at the end of the report, \u201cThis threat from the FCC is the latest in a series of moves against the independent media from President Trump and his appointees.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tClips of that coverage are available on GMA<\/a>\u2018s website and on ABCNews.com, but a GMA clip seems to have vanished from YouTube and has not been posted on X, unlike other news items from the show.<\/p>\n \n\tABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> following a series of events that rapidly escalated on Wednesday. Kimmel had suggested during a seemingly offhand comment in Monday\u2019s monologue that suspected Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson was a MAGA member. On Wednesday, FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened <\/a>the licenses of ABC affiliates over the comment, prompting affiliate group Nexstar to declare it would preempt Kimmel\u2019s show. Then ABC announced the show<\/a> would be suspended \u201cindefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You know how media figures make fun of Fox News when they ignore a huge story that makes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":237166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[19719,171,20436,11171,50812,6219,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-237165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-charlie-kirk","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gma","11":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","12":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","13":"tag-the-view","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115227140058899291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}