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Created: 2025-07-18 18:40:05 UTC

By canceling "The Late Show," CBS and Paramount simultaneously bend the knee to an aspiring despot, open the door for more TV titans to fall, and further compromise the public's faith in free speech.

A brief timeline of pure coincidences:

— On July 1, Paramount Global settled a lawsuit from Trump by agreeing to pay him $XX million.
— On July 14, Colbert called the settlement a “big, fat bribe” during “The Late Show.”
— On July 17, CBS canceled “The Late Show.”

We take a deeper dive here:

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