Trump wanted to rein in Disney. Now it’s fighting back in court.

单集文稿 ...

• 00:05

  Good morning.

• 00:05

  Disney sues the Trump administration.

• 00:08

  NPR's media correspondent explains what's going on.

• 00:11

  The first two words of the lawsuit are "government censorship," and it gives you a feel of what follows.

• 00:18

  Bipartisan outrage stymies a Border Patrol project inside a beloved National Park.

• 00:23

  And the Wall Street Journal looks at Iran's secret plan to escalate the war.

• 00:27

  It's Wednesday, August 19th.

• 00:28

  I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shami Tabassee.

• 00:30

  This is Apple News Today.

• 00:38

  ABC and its parent company Disney filed a lawsuit against the FCC yesterday to block its regulatory threats—

• 00:45

  an escalation in the media company's long-running feud with the President.

• 00:49

  The FCC chair, Brendan Carr, has ordered an early review into ABC's broadcast license,

• 00:55

  even though it's not up for renewal.

• 00:57

  ABC says it poses an existential threat to its operations,

• 01:01

  and Disney called their actions an extraordinary assault on free speech.

• 01:05

  The President has gone after ABC repeatedly.

• 01:09

  David Folkenflik is a media correspondent for NPR.

• 01:12

  "For its news coverage, it's gone after it for what's appeared on the daytime talk show The View,

• 01:18

  some of whose hosts have been pretty acerbic about the President and his return to power.

• 01:22

  And he's gone particularly after late-night comic and satirist Jimmy Kimmel."

• 全部文稿