It's Monday, September 22nd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What a Day, the show that learned on Friday that free speech has an entirely new meaning, courtesy of President Donald Trump.

When somebody is given 97% of the stories a bad about a person, that's no longer free speech, that's no longer in it. That's just cheating.

And they cheat.

Content warning.

There's going to be a lot of cheating in this episode.

On today's show, a federal judge in Florida tosses out Trump's $15 billion defamation

lawsuit against the New York Times due to it being written like a love letter to Trump.

And the United Kingdom, Australia, Portugal, and Canada formally recognize a Palestinian state.

But let's start with Jimmy Kimmel.

You've probably heard a ton about the story over the last few days.

That's because the suspension of a late-night talk show host isn't just about a late-night

talk-show host. It's about speech and what you can and apparently can't say on television.

Last week, ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live from its usual spot in the nightly lineup after FCC

Chairman Brendan Carr said that Kimmel should face repercussions for comments regarding the assassination

of conservative activist

Charlie Kirk. But there's a lot more to this story. First, there's the money. Next are,

the largest owner of television stations in the country, desperately wants a merger,

and would need permission from the FCC to get it done. In fact, mergers have seemingly been in the

background for multiple incidents of massive

media companies capitulating to the Trump administration over the last few months.

Take the cancellation of comedian Stephen Colbert's talk show by CBS, for example, in the shadow

of the Paramount Skydance merger, a merger that got approved by the FCC right after Colbert's show

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