Around 35 Dallasites gathered outside the North Texas headquarters of media juggernaut Nexstar on Tuesday to call for stronger free speech protections and protest the potential merger of Nexstar and broadcast company Tegna.
One event organizer joked that the mid-day gathering was made up of “a bunch of old hippies exercising their right to protest.” A spokesperson for Nexstar declined to comment on the gathering.
Nexstar, the largest television station owner in the United States, has led the charge in sanctioning comedian Jimmy Kimmel for comments he made on his late-night television show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, in the days after the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. Nexstar was the first major media group to remove Kimmel’s show from the airwaves after Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, called for “action” to be taken against Kimmel…