I’ll note that Colbert has the highest viewership (and therefore ad revenue) in his time slot. This is almost surely about the Ellison family, which now controls CBS, wanting to silence him.
I’ll note that Colbert has the highest viewership (and therefore ad revenue) in his time slot. This is almost surely about the Ellison family, which now controls CBS, wanting to silence him.
It’s not about Colbert getting paid. That part is about the 200 people working for him.
And yeah, one should be outraged. He’s fired for political speech. That’s pretty damning for our country. Nobody is allowed to criticize dear leader.
Carson would like a word.
The point is, it is a fact that those late night shows are an anachronism. It is plausible that they would still be doing this even if Trump didn’t win, and wasn’t in a position to extort them. Heck, I think it would be more likely, because Colbert would have had less political material if our politics weren’t so bonkers.
It seems a plausible concern with Colbert, but doesn’t explain Conan or Corden.
So I think there’s some ambiguity here and some potential to look silly declaring this with absolute certainty and then Colbert ends up explaining he wanted to retire or move on to other projects while handing the show off to some other host, but the network decided not to bother with that show after the current host goes.
Meanwhile more unambiguously Trump has been restricting access to news media he doesn’t like and we can keep talking about that and other unambiguous things and even saying there’s a solid chance that appeasing Trump is to some extent causing this event, but certainty needs more information from authotive sources.
If he were gonna do that, it would have been yesterday when he made the announcement.