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Created: 2025-07-21 23:15:14 UTC

The news that CBS had canceled “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” prompted plenty of speculation about the network’s motivations. But “the underlying point is clear”: late-night TV has lost its value, David Sims argues:

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