Timeline catalogs conflict over Kimmel monologues, The View, and ABC licenses
The Wall Street Journal on August 18 updated its explanatory timeline tracing the more-than-year-long dispute between Walt Disney and the Trump administration. The piece was written by Melissa Korn, a deputy bureau chief with the Journal’s media team who covers news, publishing, advertising, and streaming.
The Journal’s timeline said the conflict “kicked off in earnest” with a Federal Communications Commission review of Disney’s diversity initiatives. The dispute expanded from there across multiple fronts, the Journal reported. The WSJ identified barbs over Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night monologues, questions over political bias on The View, and an early review of ABC broadcast licenses among the additional episodes.
The Journal’s timeline also catalogs allegations of misinformation and First Amendment violations among the dispute’s flashpoints, without further detail in the article’s introductory passage. The piece is structured as a chronological timeline and is labeled as explanatory, with a note that the article “may be updated periodically.”