I faced network censorship in the heyday of Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore — the Trump era is different

I faced network censorship in the heyday of Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore — the Trump era is different

Marching in front of ABC in downtown New York with the Writers Guild to protest Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was remarkably different from all previous protests. This effort wasn’t designed to achieve rights for us from the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, but to preserve free speech for the country. I joined the Guild when I got my first writing assignment, an episode of The New Dick Van Dyke Show (Hope Lange played Van Dyke…