The cancellation of the popular host’s late-night US chat show says more about the terminally declining state of TV than any MAGA conspiracy to silence him
Support: Protests outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York this week after CBS/Paramount announced the cancellation of ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’. Photo: Ryan Murphy/Reuters
It’s the biggest shock to hit US television — and maybe even global TV — in years: why is Stephen Colbert’s number-one-rated late-night talk show being cancelled by CBS?
Censorship of an anti-Trump voice? A corporate conspiracy? The latest example of Big Media bending the knee to MAGA?
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