While taping his Thursday show, host Stephen Colbert made the surprising announcement that CBS is ending his late night show in May.
The live audience at New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater booed when he delivered the news that this would be the show’s final season.
“Yeah, I share your feelings,” he told the audience. “It’s not just the end our our show, but it’s the end of The Late Show on CBS. I’m not being replaced. This is all just going away.”
Rather used copies of real documents that had their kerning adjusted to appear false.
It was a strategic ratfuck by the administration and one Karl Rove was celebrated for in the White House.
But CBS execs went along with it, because they were more concerned with next quarter’s ad revenue than their broader reputation or their duty to the public as a broadcaster.
Twenty years later, the company has been fully picked apart. Their best journalists are gone and replaced with hacks. They’ve fully lost the youth audience and the public trust. The Ellisons are picking the last meat off the bones.
Can you cite a source on that? I remember back then seeing an interview with the person that made up the docs and they admitted they did it because they wanted to discredit Bush.
With a bunch of time spent digging around in old Internet archives maybe.
He sounds trustworthy so I guess we’ll take that at face value
Detective #1: “We have the murderer. He admitted to killing the victim.”
Detective #2: “What kind of fool are you to believed that?!”
According to the National Registry of Exonerations in the United States, 27% of those on the registry who were accused of homicide, but were later exonerated, gave false confessions. However, 81% of people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities also confessed when accused of homicide.
Your own source cited numbers even suggest the majority of people admitting to murder are the one that did the murder, and you’re trying to use that as a defense to your point?