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This week, ABC pulled the comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show off the air over remarks he made related to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The suspension followed comments from Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, about Kimmel. “The message from the FCC is clear,” Vivian Salama, the guest moderator for Washington Week With The Atlantic, said last night: “The rules for engagement are changing.” Panelists joined to discuss this, and more.
“You can’t see this in isolation,” Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House corres