July 21, 2025
Network claims to be the cancellation Late the show For financial reasons, but the true modernity here is Trump’s coincidence.
Stephen Colbert on the set Late the show Last week.
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Last Thursday, President Trump, desperate to stop talking about his close personal friend and frequent travel companion Jeffrey Epstein, received an instant deferral. He gained a couple of major victories over his critics, real and imaginary, and further reworked the main media -stag on his personal vendeth. In Washington, Congress has finally reduced the federal funding of the corporation for public broadcasting (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), the goals of the right to decades. The reflection of the president for PBS and NPR is that he threatened the primary republican who pushed him away. “Any Republican who votes to allow this horror to continue broadcasting will not have my support and approval,” – Trump announced.
No one is surprised, the Republicans of Congress did, as they said. They did this, despite the fact that their village voters will be the most stringent hit – people who depend on those stations for earthquake warnings and floods, unlike the elite coastal socialists who are the only demographic network. On the same day in New Yar Trump received a large bonus. Late the showStephen Kolbert, the most highly appreciated by critic comedy at the end of the night, was fired. Just three days earlier, Colbert fronted his corporate chiefs, CBS and her parent company Paramount. Paramount paid Trump $ 16 million for the trial settlement against which Trump has applied 60 minutes While the Elison family’s transaction to acquire Paramount, which hung in the equilibrium at the Trump Communications Commission (FCC). Kolbert dropped: “I believe that such a complex financial settlement with a government official has a technical name in legal circles: this” Big fat! “
A few days later Kolbert received the word that he was getting an ax: at the end of his current contract in May 2026, CBS will release it. Moreover, network executives said this Late the show Himself, which was founded by David Letteman in 1993, will cease to exist. Last March, Bill Maher, sometimes a fierce critic of the president, flew into Mar-a-lago by Kid Rock to dinner with Trump and bend his knee. In particular, a fan of WB Discovery Properties Daincovery Discovery, including CNN, started relatively easily compared to ABC, CBS, NPR and PBS in Trump’s media. Bill Maher still has a show. Stephen Kolbert, who did not bend the knee, does not.
We still do not know if I pressured CBS on firing with Colbert, or just offered him a sacrifice to calm the Trump FCC. Despite the terms and a billion dollars around the skydiving transaction, CBS Executive Director George Shiks denied that the move was political and insisted that the cancellation was a “purely financial decision”. Taking CBS from one’s word for a moment, the cheeks are not mistaken. In the late night talk show is struggled to make a profit over the years for its corporate owners. They remain expensive relics in the world with three network broadcasts. If James Corden is gone Late the late show In 2023, aired after Kolbert, CBS also canceled it. The network replaced it with a reboot, cheaply made of comedy show, After the north. Colbert’s ratings still go far ahead of their two main rivals, Jimmy Kimmel ABC and Jimmy Fallon, but the late night advertising revenues have been consistently reduced over the years. Seven years ago, late night cleared 439 million dollars; Last year, this total number was halved, up to $ 220 million. Meanwhile, the Fox News, Late Night Greeg Gutfeld Gutfeld!Going an hour earlier, manages competitive numbers except five people sitting on chairs Attempts to make the word “Nazi” cheerful.
While the financial free drop in the late night is real, the same exact political term of Kolbert. CBS went to a great length to avoid apologies or recognition of violations on behalf of 60 minutes When he paid Trump his $ 16 million. If CBS wants to avoid uneasiness of employees who did nothing wrong, why the Colbert fire a few days after its widely quoted comment? By calling it a “pure financial decision”, CBS executives want to give the impression that they are only on balances. They had to know that their terms would look like a tougher. They could wait another week. Why announce three days after Colbert attacked them and Trump? What’s a hurry?
Hurry up that Kolbert called a “big fat bribe” on Monday, and David Ellison from Saidans met with Brendan Carram FCC. At the meeting, Submission of FCC claims that Alison and his lawyer “discussed Skydance’s commitment to objective journalism and her hugs of different perspectives, the principles that will provide Cbs“During editorial decisions, various ideological prospects for American viewers are reflected.”
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Perhaps this is just another incredible planning coincidence, but this promise of objective journalism happened a few days after Alson sat down in Allen and a retreat in the Song of Song Negotiations on early acquisition from Bari Wais For her archaic site, Free press. As a media newsletter Sharak shut: “Is it a loud business or just a smart virtue alarm in Trump 2.0?” You can ask the same question about firing from Kolbert. For now for reading only tea leaves, it is probably like that Elon Musk -twitter Investor The guidance on it will be a decisively right slope. And if it succeeds at all, like on Twitter Investment Ellison, it will also be really ugly.
If Paramount thinks of a cave, payment, and a Trump alarm will help lubricate the wheels to put the Skydance transaction, then Kolbert’s shooting brought an instant profitability of investments. Trump came to the truth social morning on Friday Raven His admiration About a pure financial decision CBS. “I absolutely love that Colbert” is fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel located nearby. Next talent than Colbert! Gugg Gutfeld is better than all of them in combination, including a moron on NBC, which ruined once a great show. “
CBS – Long is known among industry observers as “Tiffany” – a long history of talent silence with loud, liberal considerations. With the firing of Kolbert it was as if the late founder of the Willay S. Paley network rose from the grave to chase his old house. The most famous example remains the cancellation of Paley Hour Comedy Brothers Smoths Not only for the war against Vietnam and religious thematic satire, but also for the reservation of the left, such as Harry Belafonte and Joan Baes. But the history of CBS dissidents is coming further. In June 1939, another highest CBS rating comedian, Eddie Cantar to address the thousandth Hadasses meeting, appeared at the New York fair. He used the moment to get out against the rise of domestic fascism and anti -Semitism after 900 Jewish refugees from Hitler on the SS STE -Louis were sent to Europe by our immigration bodies. “If we aren’t scared cautious if we don’t fight for life and freedom, the whole business is going on here said Cantor. “Some people told me that I seem to be quite panic. They do not know what important industrialists are behind this business, Senator Reynolds and Father tiles and General Moseli and George Deeagrad. Democratic Senator Robert Rice Reynolds arrived from North Carolina, as well as Sponsor Cantor in CBS, RJR Reynolds Tobacco. The office lost its show for two weeks.
George Clooney recently played CBS News correspondent Edward R. Murow for Broadway -based movie 2005 Good night and good luck. Following a blow to the body against Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954, the polarizing masonry was expelled from the Prime CBS Prime Champion line to sporadic speeches on Sunday after lunch. Clooney’s performance tells about the public death of Morow as much as McCarthy.
In February 1982President Guild Actors Screen and Star CBS Lu grantEd Asner, appeared on the steps of the State Department in Washington, Colombia District. Asner stood next to the actors and directors of Howard Hesseman, Lee Grant, Marshal, Berth Schneider and Ralph “Pa Walton” Waite. He handed over a $ 25,000 check “Medical Assistance to Salvador”, which went to the rebels who opposed the right government supported by the Reagan administration. They hoped to raise $ 1 million in the future. The reporter asked Asner if he would support the communist government in Salvador. He said so, yes As long as the government was elected democratic. Lu grant Sponsors such as Kimberly-Clark soon came out of the show. CBS canceled it in May. The company pointed to the drop in ratings or the “pure financial decision”, as we say now. Just more amazing terms? As an aser – said then“This allows Jerry Faluels, people of Clenex and Caucus Conservative Consumers to think that they can restrain free speech at will.”
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And so it turned out, and so they are still doing today. Now Stephen Colbert joins this list. It is doubtful that Kolbert will disappear. Late the show It cannot earn all the money she would like, but Kolbert still prescribes the audience of millions. As the path to the White House is increasingly through podcasts and youtubers and not network shows, Kolbert can still remain a loud Trump critic if he wants.
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