Jimmy Kimmel, The FCC & Free Speech: What To Know & Why It Matters
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Jenna takes you behind-the-scenes into the life of a broadcaster and untangles the swirling stories about Jimmy Kimmel’s “indefinite suspension.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Smarter News. I'm Jenna, and I'm glad to see you today. We're |
| 0:11.4 | going to tackle a really hot topic that is certainly trending online, but I'm getting a ton of |
| 0:15.9 | questions about. And we're going to go about this topic a little bit different than I normally do on Sm news. You know, we're all about quick and concise, nonpartisan information. I want to clarify things for you so you can make up your own mind. I hope to do that with the situation that we're going to be addressing. But I also want to add a little bit of a personal twist to this as well. Because as many of you know, I've been a journalist for 20 years. I've worked in |
| 0:37.8 | journalism in a whole bunch of different capacities. But one of the ways that I was a working journalist |
| 0:43.1 | was as a national news anchor for Fox Business and Fox News. I left in 2017 because I really believe |
| 0:50.5 | in nonpartisan news. And I believe there was another way for me to serve the public |
| 0:55.0 | as a journalist. And that's the origin story of smarter news in a very short period of time. There's a |
| 1:00.4 | lot to that story and perhaps we could talk about it more in the future. But that was the motivation |
| 1:04.1 | behind it. I also had this very unique set of experience from the inside, you know, seeing media |
| 1:08.7 | from the inside and wondering, are we actually providing |
| 1:12.5 | the service that we should to the public? And it was that experience that helps form my own |
| 1:19.3 | editorial decisions here on smarter news. The big topic that is of conversation today is about |
| 1:27.4 | Jimmy Kimmel. |
| 1:28.6 | Jimmy Kimmel, as you know, is one of the most nationally recognized comedians. |
| 1:32.7 | Up to you, whether or not you think he's funny. |
| 1:34.5 | Either way, he's nationally recognized. |
| 1:37.1 | He is the host of a big late-night talk show on ABC. |
| 1:41.7 | It has been a tradition in America that these late night talk shows tackle culture |
| 1:46.6 | and politics and have been institutions amongst the television networks. As of late, |
| 1:52.4 | we're seeing some changes with that. But in general, this is why Jimmy Kimmel matters and why |
| 1:58.9 | his platform has been significant. |
| 2:01.4 | And just over the last 24 hours, we got news of an indefinite suspension. |
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