PBS News Hour’s weekly Friday segment with New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart focused exclusively on ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and the idea that censorship and authoritarianism are big problems. Brooks took a sort of centrist position where he condemned Kimmel and the late night industry as a whole but denounced the suspension, while Capehart warned that authoritarianism is already here, claiming, “We’re in it.”
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Brangham didn’t seem interested in anything could be considered nuanced, “You used the term authoritarianism before, Jonathan. And do you — I mean, this has been now another one of the very successful efforts that the Trump administration has used with law firms, with universities, with media companies. Where do you see this going? Where do you see this ending?”
Capehart began lamenting, “I would like to think that there would be a media company or a band of law firms or a band of institutions of higher learning who would be willing to push back. It's not enough that Harvard is willing to push back. It's not enough that The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are willing to push back.”
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