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FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk
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FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened to "take ...
The Federal Communications Commission’s Trump-aligned chairman on Wednesday threatened to “take action” against Disney and ABC over Jimmy Kimmel’s recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer.
During his Monday evening monologue, Kimmel suggested Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, might have been a pro-Trump Republican. “The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”
The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Carr added that the broadcasters, including ABC, “have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Carr attacked Kimmel as “talentless” and suggested the late-night comedian’s comments displayed “some sort of desperate irrelevance.” Disney and ABC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This was not the first time Carr has gone after ABC in recent months. In July, the Trump appointee told Fox News that long-running daytime talk show “The View” is “now in the crosshairs of this administration” over co-host Joy Behar’s scathing criticism of President Trump.
Kimmel has also been a frequent target of President Trump’s ire. Shortly after CBS announced the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s late-night talk show — a move Carr publicly celebrated — Trump suggested that “Next up will be an even less talented Jimmy Kimmel.”
The Federal Communications Commission’s Trump-aligned chairman on Wednesday threatened to “take action” against Disney and ABC over Jimmy Kimmel’s recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer.
During his Monday evening monologue, Kimmel suggested Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, might have been a pro-Trump Republican. “The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”
The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Carr added that the broadcasters, including ABC, “have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Carr attacked Kimmel as “talentless” and suggested the late-night comedian’s comments displayed “some sort of desperate irrelevance.” Disney and ABC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This was not the first time Carr has gone after ABC in recent months. In July, the Trump appointee told Fox News that long-running daytime talk show “The View” is “now in the crosshairs of this administration” over co-host Joy Behar’s scathing criticism of President Trump.
Kimmel has also been a frequent target of President Trump’s ire. Shortly after CBS announced the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s late-night talk show — a move Carr publicly celebrated — Trump suggested that “Next up will be an even less talented Jimmy Kimmel.”
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Broadcasting from the Heart of the Church
Broadcasting from the Heart of the Church
The Order donates a new mobile broadcasting unit to the Vatican on eve of the Jubilee 2025
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The Order donates a new mobile broadcasting unit to the Vatican on eve of the Jubilee 2025
2/10/2025
Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, is accompanied by Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly as he blesses a new mobile broadcasting unit outside St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Dec. 21. (Photo by Vatican Media)
The Knights of Columbus recently donated a state-of-the-art mobile broadcasting unit to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, unveiling the vehicle in Rome just days before Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee Year 2025.
The new broadcasting van was blessed by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro during a Dec. 21 ceremony attended by Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly, staff of the Dicastery for Communication, including Paolo Ruffini, prefect, and others.
In an interview with Vatican News that day, the supreme knight said the new mobile broadcasting unit will not only help bring the voice of Pope Francis to a wider audience but will “deliver the message of Jesus Christ from the Vatican to Catholics and all people of goodwill around the world.”
The Knights of Columbus recently donated a state-of-the-art mobile broadcasting unit to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, unveiling the vehicle in Rome just days before Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee Year 2025.
The new broadcasting van was blessed by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro during a Dec. 21 ceremony attended by Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly, staff of the Dicastery for Communication, including Paolo Ruffini, prefect, and others.
In an interview with Vatican News that day, the supreme knight said the new mobile broadcasting unit will not only help bring the voice of Pope Francis to a wider audience but will “deliver the message of Jesus Christ from the Vatican to Catholics and all people of goodwill around the world.”
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Pope Appoints Award-Winning Lay Journalist as Head of Vatican Communications
Posted by Edward Pentin on Thursday Jul 5th, 2018 at 11:55 AM
NEWS ANALYSIS: Paolo Ruffini has broad experience in press, television and radio, as well as being the nephew of the late Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini.
Pope Francis has appointed a respected, award-winning lay journalist to head the Dicastery for Communication, replacing Msgr. Dario Edoardo Vigano who had overseen many reforms but was forced to resign earlier this year after the “Lettergate” scandal.
Paolo Ruffini, who becomes the first ever layman to head a Vatican dicastery, was born in Palermo, Sicily, and from 2014 until his appointment today was director of the Italian bishops’ conference television channel, TV2000.
Prior to that, he held leading roles within the Italian state television channel RAI Tre (where according to one report his record was “indisputable” and “could not be faulted”), and then the national commercial television station, LA7.
Ruffini, 61, began his career in 1978 as a reporter for Mattino di Napoli, before moving to Rome and joining the national daily Il Messaggero in the 1980s. He married in 1986, and eventually became deputy editor of the newspaper in 1996. That same year, he became director of Giornale Radio Rai, a state-run radio station, where he created special editions dedicated to culture, medicine, science and the environment.
Pope Francis has appointed a respected, award-winning lay journalist to head the Dicastery for Communication, replacing Msgr. Dario Edoardo Vigano who had overseen many reforms but was forced to resign earlier this year after the “Lettergate” scandal.
Paolo Ruffini, who becomes the first ever layman to head a Vatican dicastery, was born in Palermo, Sicily, and from 2014 until his appointment today was director of the Italian bishops’ conference television channel, TV2000.
Prior to that, he held leading roles within the Italian state television channel RAI Tre (where according to one report his record was “indisputable” and “could not be faulted”), and then the national commercial television station, LA7.
Ruffini, 61, began his career in 1978 as a reporter for Mattino di Napoli, before moving to Rome and joining the national daily Il Messaggero in the 1980s. He married in 1986, and eventually became deputy editor of the newspaper in 1996. That same year, he became director of Giornale Radio Rai, a state-run radio station, where he created special editions dedicated to culture, medicine, science and the environment.
Tuesday, May 08, 2018
Nicholas Kristof On What The Media Is Missing While It's Covering Trump
May 08, 2018
closemore President Donald Trump signals to beckoning reporters that he can't hear them over the sound of his helicopter as he returns to the White House after speaking Cleveland to tout the Republican tax cuts just ahead of Ohio's primary election Tuesday, in Washington, Saturday, May 5, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
With Jane Clayson
With Trump getting all the headlines, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says other important issues at home and abroad are ignored. He joins us.
Guests:
Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the New York Times who write on human rights, women's rights, health and global affairs. (@NickKristof)
Interview Highlights:
On the media's complicated relationship with Trump
Nicholas Kristof: "Well, boy, it's awkward, isn't it, since we criticize him nonstop, justifiably, and yet he is crucial to it to our business model. You know, back in 2016 I remember some anxiety in newsrooms, because at that point we had huge audiences because of the election. But there was considerable concern that Hillary Clinton would win and then the world would become boring again, and her audiences would drop and the business model would erode. And, well, that has not happened.
"We have to cover President Trump. We the news media generally are crucial to providing that kind of accountability, and I dop's assault on institutions and norms in the country. But there are all these other fronts too."
On how coverage of Trump boosts audiences for media organizations
NK: "As a journalist, you know, I know that I can just about hit an F5 key and a anti-Trump column will pour out. It will get huge traction and a lot of readers. Or I can travel halfway around the world to, for example, try to cover the genocide against the Rohingya, and my audience will decline. And you know I'm at this point I'm at a stage in my career when I'm perfectly happy to do that to lose audiences...But I do think that there is a real challenge, and maybe especially for cable television — partly because they have real metrics about exactly how many people are watching at any one moment.
With Jane Clayson
With Trump getting all the headlines, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says other important issues at home and abroad are ignored. He joins us.
Guests:
Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the New York Times who write on human rights, women's rights, health and global affairs. (@NickKristof)
Interview Highlights:
On the media's complicated relationship with Trump
Nicholas Kristof: "Well, boy, it's awkward, isn't it, since we criticize him nonstop, justifiably, and yet he is crucial to it to our business model. You know, back in 2016 I remember some anxiety in newsrooms, because at that point we had huge audiences because of the election. But there was considerable concern that Hillary Clinton would win and then the world would become boring again, and her audiences would drop and the business model would erode. And, well, that has not happened.
"We have to cover President Trump. We the news media generally are crucial to providing that kind of accountability, and I dop's assault on institutions and norms in the country. But there are all these other fronts too."
On how coverage of Trump boosts audiences for media organizations
NK: "As a journalist, you know, I know that I can just about hit an F5 key and a anti-Trump column will pour out. It will get huge traction and a lot of readers. Or I can travel halfway around the world to, for example, try to cover the genocide against the Rohingya, and my audience will decline. And you know I'm at this point I'm at a stage in my career when I'm perfectly happy to do that to lose audiences...But I do think that there is a real challenge, and maybe especially for cable television — partly because they have real metrics about exactly how many people are watching at any one moment.
Wednesday, May 02, 2018
Pope Francis: Catholic media must not fall behind in digital age
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Pope Francis: Catholic media must not fall behind in digital age
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
May 01, 2018
Visitors look at the digital media offerings at the booth of technology giant Google at the Republica 17 digital conference May 8, 2017, in Berlin. (CNS photo/Filip Singer, EPA)
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In an age when technology is ever-evolving, Catholic news organizations must be willing to adapt to effectively proclaim the Gospel to all, Pope Francis said.
Speaking to directors and employees of Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference, the pope said that the use of new digital platforms not only requires significant technological updates but also a willingness to accept that "the attachment to the past may prove to be a dangerous temptation."
"Authentic servants of tradition are those who, while keeping memory alive, know how to discern the signs of the times and open new paths," he said May 1.
Pope Francis said that the use of new digital platforms requires a willingness to accept that "the attachment to the past may prove to be a dangerous temptation."
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In an age when technology is ever-evolving, Catholic news organizations must be willing to adapt to effectively proclaim the Gospel to all, Pope Francis said.
Speaking to directors and employees of Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference, the pope said that the use of new digital platforms not only requires significant technological updates but also a willingness to accept that "the attachment to the past may prove to be a dangerous temptation."
"Authentic servants of tradition are those who, while keeping memory alive, know how to discern the signs of the times and open new paths," he said May 1.
Pope Francis said that the use of new digital platforms requires a willingness to accept that "the attachment to the past may prove to be a dangerous temptation."
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