Tom Hanks and Jennifer Aniston are among 400 celebrities who have signed a letter protesting ABC’s decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air last week.
The letter, organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, was also signed by Jason Bateman, Martin Short, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Meryl Streep.
The letter says that the Trump administration’s pressuring of artists, journalists, and others with retaliation for their speech “strike at the heart of what it means to live in a free country,” Variety reports.
“We now find ourselves in a modern McCarthy era, facing exactly the type of heavy-handed government censorship our Constitution rightfully forbids. The silencing of Jimmy Kimmel and jawboning of media outlets through lawsuits and threats to their licenses evokes dark memories of the 1950s,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, in a statement.
This is a developing story that will be updated.
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