The cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—CBS insists that it was purely a “financial decision”, the result of Decline of advertising revenues in television late evening. Others see As a different type of “financial decision”, a decision of Paramount (the parent company of CBS) to sacrifice Colbert so that the American president does not cancel himself A lucrative merger of $ 28 billion. Yesterday, David Letterman, the previous host of CBS ‘ The late showpublished a 20 -minute supercut with the many times he has taken the CBS over the years. The subtext? He does not seem to buy CBS discussion points. Jon Stewart is not either. More direct than Letterman, Stewart explains his own point of view on the reasons why CBS canceled Colbert: “I think that the answer is in fear and pre-conformity which grasps all American institutions at the moment, the institutions that have chosen not to fight the aircraft and vindictive actions of our actions Pubic's hair commander. Now is not the time to give in. I am not celebrating. I'm not going anywhere. Reader note: Jon Stewart's THE Daily show Aire on Comedy Central, which belongs to Paramount.
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