How MAGA and Billionaires Are Reshaping What Media You Consume

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel returned to TV after being suspended for his comments on Charlie Kirk's assassination. It was the latest sign of political pressure shaping the media landscape into something that may have been unrecognizable a decade ago. So how did we get here, and where are we headed? Axios media correspondent and CNN contributor Sara Fischer talks about the forces at play and how they’re influencing everything from talk shows to social media algorithms. This episode was Produced by Lori Galarreta and Madeleine Thompson Senior Producer: Matt Martinez Technical Director: Dan Dzula Executive Producer: Steve Lickteig Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Audie Cornish, and this is the assignment.
0:03.0	I'm not sure who had a weirder 48 hours.
0:06.0	Me or the CEO of Tylenol.
0:09.0	Jimmy Kimmel was back on air almost a week after ABC suspended his show
0:14.0	over comments he made about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
0:17.0	You understand that it was never my intention
0:20.0	to make light of the murder of a young man.
0:23.6	Kimmel's suspension ignited this fierce debate about free speech, political pressure, who gets to decide which voices stay on air.
0:31.6	First, Colbert's Late Show is canceled, then Kimmel's suspension.
0:35.6	All of this is taking place among these kind of epic
0:38.6	shifts in media. So how do we get here from say a decade ago when then Republican presidential
0:44.6	candidate Donald Trump hosted SNL? What forces brought us to this moment where conservative
0:50.2	leaders and billionaire media owners are reshaping the media landscape.
0:55.0	And what does that mean for you? The viewer. Stay with us.
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