So what? He is leading the ratings of a show with a rapidly diminishing audience in a genre that is also diminishing. He cannot bring in enough ad revenue to support the cost of producing of the show.
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He is literally losing $40 million a years for CBS.
Alienate half the country with a legacy communications method and see what happens.
I fear that we will be seeing that within the next four years. PBS will become TBS and look kind of like this
PBS… you do realize it is financed and sponsored by a government now.
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If the US withholds funding, as it should, it is estimated that NPR will lose 8-10% of their total funding and PBS will lose about 15%. They won’t be destitute and, in fact, Trump has given them mottos for pledge drives.
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That’s your best post ever, rings of truth…be careful you’re on untrod ground, now.
It’s possible his show could become a money maker if it were moved to prime time, perhaps on a cable news outlet.
I thought Sandler was a Republican. That is always the vibe I get from him.
Or a steaming service. Look at Joe and how much he makes
Indeed. It’s interesting to observe people on the government dime. Whenever even a modest proportion of their funding is threatened, they tend to shriek as if it’s the end of the world.
To quote an obscure film I saw over a decade ago, “Rule #1 when competing for government dollars is to wildly exaggerate the problem.”
Wikipedia confirms this, although the article says he hasn’t openly discussed his personal politics.
As for his participation in this circle jerk, who knows. It’s always possible he suffers from TDS, like many other so called Republicans do. The propaganda is strong.
He might also be biased in this case, since both he and Colbert are comedians.
Not out of the realm, very possible.
Also possible he could go off the ledge like Keith Olberman.
I think this is the main reason
My local NPR station was fund raising this morning because of Trump’s “attack on free speech and the First Amendment”. They’re looking to raise $3 million to make up for the loss of taxpayers money. They already have corporate sponsors, they can run commercials like the other 40 stations in the Chicago market.
I sure do. And I wonder…when the lefty liberal government was funding it (not necessarily runinng) millions of kids saw Mister Rogers soaking his feet in a pool with a black man at a time when that wasn’t totally accepted. Thank God Fred Rogers is dead or else we might see the republican dream of him telling his mommy that she should pull up her bootstraps and get a job…or maybe have a character Pedro Martinez who is abducted by ICE and jailed while they “verify his citizenship” over the course of a week. They can explain that…well…Mister Martinez looks a lot like those rapists, drug addicts and killers that invaded our country.
Are these delusions mushroom induced?
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I’m glad you brought all these points up. If they are great products they will stand on their own and be able to exist in another outlet not funded by tax payers. Or if not go the way of Colbert.
NPR and PBS may have made sense back in the day. Now with so many forms of delivery its time to remove the crutch.
Dimwits like Colbert and his writers think blasting audiences with their left-wing politics will be positive for ratings. It is a stupid mistake to make everything about one’s politics. What you wanna bet the writers were all New Yorkers who lived in that bubble?
Colbert reaped justly for what he sowed. His stupid show was losing CBS 40 million dollars a year.
Trump got the last laugh on this jerk.
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“ When your show is cancelled because it’s unwatchable, unfunny, and losing $40 million per year, that’s not censorship, that’s capitalism.”
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