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A major trade magazine editor is calling on TV producers to "hold up a mirror" to America’s "plunge into fascism" under President Donald Trump in their shows.

Ahead of the 2025 Emmy Awards ceremony in September, Variety's executive editor Michael Schneider recalled recent comments made by "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan, who hoped for television to return to more aspirational and heroic storytelling in contrast to his iconic crime drama.

Schneider disagreed in an article last week, claiming that writers can’t "sugarcoat" how "our rights are continually under attack."

"That’s why before we move on to creating new images of the world we’d like to see, we need to chronicle the one we’re now in," he wrote. "Hold a m

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