US in ferment over free speech after late-night comic is shut down
Jimmy Kimmel (AP file photo) The TOI correspondent from Washington: American public discourse is in ferment over the country’s cherished free speech rights after the Disney-owned ABC on Tuesday spiked the late-night show by Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration. The crackdown followed MAGA backlash against Kimmel’s take on the assassination of right-wing…