Daniel Lyons on the FCC and Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension
ICLE Academic Affiliate Daniel Lyons was quoted in an article regarding the FCC’s role in the suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
The indefinite suspension by the ABC Television Network of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” — officially concluding Tuesday (9/23) — is what the associate dean of academic affairs and Boston College Law School professor Daniel Lyons says “is part of a long, unfortunate FCC tradition of ‘regulation by raised eyebrow,’ where informal threats shape media behavior without formal action.”
That dynamic “underscores the risks inherent in having a communications regulator,” he argues, concluding that any intervention by the Commission led by Chairman Brendan Carr is difficult to see as “anything other than a violation of the spirit of the First Amendment.”
Read the full piece here.