News Summary

• The Right Now Show is a twice-weekly show about politics and government sponsored by The New Republic.
• Kathy Roberts Ford, professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, joins Perry Bacon.
• Ford: Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension is a real chilling [of] free expression.
• Bacon: It seems as though these mergers by the parent companies of news media institutions are being politicized in order to pressure parent companies into doing the bidding of government officials.
• The First Amendment forbids the use of regulatory threats and pressure to silence critics and to silence political discussion.