FCC chairman Brenan Carr appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show to praise Nexstar and Sinclair for pulling “ Jimmy Kimmel Live” from their ABC affiliate stations, after which ABC suspended production of the show indefinitely.

“Something’s gone seriously awry,” Carr said about late night shows like Kimmel’s. “They went from being court jesters that would make fun of everybody in power to being court clerics and enforcing a very narrow political ideology. And Nexstar stood up and said, ‘We have the license and we don’t want to run this anymore. We don’t think it serves the interest of our community. Sinclair did the same thing. There’s more work to go, but I’m very glad to see that America’s broadcasters are standing up to serve the interest of their community. We don’t just have this

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