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Screenwriters, and Michael Eisner, blast Disney
Los Angeles Times
|September 20, 2025
WGA members and ex-CEO join chorus of criticism against move to sideline Kimmel.
WGA members and supporters rallied outside Disney's New York HQ on Friday.
More than 100 members of the Writers Guild of America East and their supporters jammed the sidewalk in front of Walt Disney Co.’s Lower Manhattan headquarters Friday to protest ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
The late-night program has been dark since Wednesday, when the Disney-owned network announced in a terse statement that it will be “preempted indefinitely.” The move followed decisions by two major owners of ABC affiliates to drop the show because of Kimmel’s remarks about the suspect in the shooting death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
Members of the union, which represents TV and film writers, marched with signs calling the move an attack on free speech and accusing Walt Disney Co. executives of lacking backbone.
Among the messages: “Disney and ABC Capitulation and Censorship,” “Always Be Cowards,” “Absolute Bull— Cowards” and “Disney/ABC Bows to Trump Extortion.” There were chants of “Bring Jimmy back.”
The demonstration reflected anger building in the creative community over Kimmel’s removal, which Federal Communications Commission — Chairman Brendan Carr called for during a podcast interview that aired on Wednesday.
Carr said if action was not taken against Kimmel, there could be consequences for the TV stations that carry his show.
This story is from the September 20, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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