“There’s one defining flaw of the social-media apps that have replaced television …, it’s their siloing effect—everyone getting entertainment custom-tailored for them [means] no one is in conversation with anyone else. We’re all just talking to ourselves.” variety.com/2025/tv/colu...
Cue up Father Knows Best
just look at how many millions of people each day are watching Gunsmoke - 50 years after it was canceled.
He's the top rated show for time slop & no option from CBS just canceling. I think Cobert & his writers & all his staff should file suit & officially notify CBS execs to not destroy communications including email, text, etc. Imagine discovery just from CBS's internal communication would reveal.
I also think it reflects the fact that we have a permanent divide in this country - two different sets of values and vision. I don't want to expend energy trying to change people who will not change. I want to put my energy into moving forward and it won't happen with us all together, one half 1/2
keeps pulling us backward. I am absolutely ready to divide this country and help people relocate to the version they support. Engaging in dialogue with people who think so radically different is a waste of energy. I'm ready for a Blue country with effort spent on helping people, healthcare, etc.
Solution, cut the cord, we really don't need Television """programming""""get your info from valid sources; read, find good YouTubers and Substack - to name a few. I have not had cable tv in years, don't miss it one bit. I do a lot of ad free YouTube.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him watch Paramount.
What’s to come is the end of commercial broadcasting.
This is so very true. As painful as it might be, people on the left need to be spending time on eX-twitter and Trump Social dropping truth bombs on MAGA.
And dancing with ourselves too!
It does appear that they do not want his views aired on the upcoming Congressional elections.
While talking to myself I thought this:the 2008 mortgage crisis & the issue of banks/financials being "too big to fail" may apply if Bondi released the Epstein client list & it names foreign monarchs/leaders,ambassadors,corp execs,lawyers,CIA,FBI,actors,US ex-presidents,& 'Fats' Trump.Ouchy!
I just cancelled Paramount Plus and I will NOT be watching CBS or any movies with Paramount. I know it will be tough however I refuse to give these people my money anymore....ANY OF THESE PEOPLE! They have us over here like were are fucking crackheads lol
Forbes Headline: Trump Attacks Stephen Colbert After Late Show Cancellation As He Claims ‘Jimmy Kimmel Is Next’ trump making good on his threats to destroy the press and media. These are NOT OFFICIAL ACTIONS for which a legitimate president has been granted immunity! SCOTUS needs to step up here!
And they tend to hype misinformation with no filters, no trusted voice to check truth.
Of course, I do chat with the wall from time to time. But hey, you're absolutely right!
bsky.app/profile/gtco... We all have echo chambers. We don't talk anymore, just sitting behind a screen scrolling, waisting hours daily. Trying to keep up in comment sections and then we move on. Feels like we're always 1 hour late to the conversation. I often miss my life before the internet.
The urgency to end Trump and his evil empire has never been more necessary.
The next target is likely to be Kimmel. ABC has over 20 national affiliates owned by far right Sinclair Broadcasting who have influenced ABC's decision to fire veteran reporter Terry Moran! Then that will lead to MSNBC with Maddow and O'Donnell.
💥💥💥💥...Here's the REALITY of the CBS disturbing Happenings!💥💥💥💥... CBS is looking at being acquired by Billionaire, Jewish Bud, of DonOLD J. Trump!.. David Ellison is trying & will probably succeed in taking over CBS & turning it into a FASCIST Network!
All CBS and Paramount will accomplish with this is to make themselves obsolete. Like the idiotic law firms and Columbia, Shari Redstone's greed has managed to make her product worthless.
I hate being siloed with people who insist on truth and decency.
Takes investment $ to broadcast on TV & there're limits to content. Brainwashing a-ala-carte is limited to religion TV. On Social Media & cable, corps broadcast pretty much w/o content limits & all that one needs to make $ is a Smartphone, a social media account & a knack for fact-less gaslighting.
Shortly 24/7 FOX and Friends with people like Pete KEGseth.
HBO should fire Bill Maher and give his time slot to Stephen Colbert.
Yes George it is and it’s damn scary! The abyss is getting darker and darker! This is just what project 2025s plan is!! Read Project by David A Graham!
This action is probably a negotiated point with the Trump administration so that CBS won’t have any late night bashing of dear leader Trump. Another sad day for America! This is authoritarianism!
Social Media Apps need to create their own channels.
By attacking education, media, art, and satire, Trump isn’t just silencing critics—he’s reshaping reality itself. A society that doesn’t think critically, doesn’t trust information, doesn’t create freely, and doesn’t laugh at power is a society ripe for authoritarian rule. I posted this 5mths ago.
And algorithms can sometimes prevent us from even doing that.
Now they can start playing the Star Spangled Banner again at midnight and just sign off, like they did in the “good old days”. That should be profitable.
That’s quite the profound observation. And largely true.
Fuck you, CBS Fuck you, weakness with ears Fuck you, spineless assholes
More reason to support PBS.
And now TacoD will be signing legislation to drastically cut funding to PBS, if not all funding. 🤬
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Except if someone gets caught cheating at a Coldplay concert. The only explanation for MAGA even existing is that fox news and the social media algorithms must completely filter out the reality of trump. But surely no one has escaped the Coldplay cheat?
Exactly. Sad to see. Democracy depends upon free press that reports truth. People can differ on how to deal with events - not having “alternate facts.
A cancellation coming on the heels of Mr. Colbert hard hit at a $16 million settlement w/ Trump, legal minds said, “had no merit,” looks like curtailing his free speech, not a changing biz trend. The lure of Late Night hosts is always its frisky talent, suggestive interviews, smart talk, not bland.
We already are. Where does this idea come from that MAGA and non-MAGA have anything remotely resembling a “conversation”? It no longer exists. And MAGA chooses to be utterly siloed. Contempt is now the coin of the realm.
🇨🇦🇺🇦 I do not believe social media would replace television if it wasn’t for the pattern of anger & needing to vent. In this Trump era, people have been conditioned to turn to social media for news & programming in real time . However, I LOVE turning to television-especially late night to unwind…
I am very fortunate in Canada that we do NOT have 24/7 Donald Trump networks. We seem to have much more balanced news featuring public news stories as well. But late night is VITAL & CBS Paramount has screwed themselves more & more by bowing to Trump. Colbert is the final nail in their coffin.
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Maybe they should call it anti-social media.
Not just social media apps, but also tv in general. With hundreds of channels, plus streaming, its very easy for people to get their information from few sources and be brainwashed.
I really don’t get why you Americans are always shocked by Trumps antics, he has never hid who and what he is
Oh well it's been one topic for all the late night shows, daytime talk shows, radio shows, and podcasts for a decade. Trump The social media is the same thing. People need a break from being force fed the same bullshit day in day out. Time to write some new material that can relax the brain.
60 Minutes is next.
In the Trump era, no speech is free.
Put your televisions down and pick up your signs. "Regardless of religion or politics, nothing stands in the way of a firm resolve." Henry David Thoreau. This is a Republican coup and it is a mechanism protecting evil.
Yeah trumpvision!!!
Booooooooooooo
Talk about lightning striking twice in the same place. CBS caves again. youtu.be/ma0z1EZ81PY?...
The world is watching. www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/us...
We live in different realities, even good people may think they are doing the right thing even if they are tools of bloody despots. Since we can all now find "proof" of anything thing . . . there is zero chance of America remaining even this "United". This nation will break up. Hopefully peacefully.
America has been riding a 50/50 split since forever. It’s not changing, and it’s not a social media thing. Canada moved from Conservative likelihood to Liberal machine in mere weeks. It’s about the society and its political culture; a willingness to digest information, not the media platform.
Yes George we noticed you never comment on our comments 🤔
I had been thinking: When they take Stephen Colbert off the air, it’s all over.
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The reason Paramount did it is “duh.” The stupidity is contagious. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
so what. I personally got tired of trying to have a conversation with stupid. there's a limit, and most of us have reached it.
Things that make you go hmm.
When is the funeral? This should be treated as the death of the 1st Amendment.
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He will be fine and speak elsewhere things be a changing and truly I think that is a good thing
Shit. The late-night shows are practically the only thing keeping me sane.
CBS is going to have to revive "Hee Haw" if they want to have any kind of audience.
More than Colbert. It started with 60 Minutes
Faux Fox has been doing it since 1996
Well I've just cancelled Paramount!
Yes, i love bluesky but i notice it more here than when i was “there”. But I am so much more informed here.
Despicable
HBO should get Colbert into a weekly show like John Oliver and Bill Maher.
I don't even talk with myself...that guy is such an idiot.
I don't see how watching TV represented being in a conversation, either.
Maybe it’s just that I’m old and that’s why I’m familiar with this. It absolutely used to be that people talked about what they had seen on TV the night before, including the news. On their commute, at work, at the gym.
we absolutely still do bond over shared media, it's just asynchronous. If the other person hasn't seen show X, we recommend it, then we talk about similar shows, stuff like that. the idea that we don't bond over shared media anymore is ludicrous.
yes but in preselected groups. There is a significant percentage of the population without a share in a reality based world. I don’t mean talking to people you like about media you watched. Of course that still happens. I mean we all used to watch the same news and then had different takes on it.
oh sure, about news that's sensible. but this is a comment thread on the cancellation of Colbert, a comedy show, so, y'know, was discussing from that perspective, it being the topic and all
I feel that Colbert‘s comedy from his time as a Daily Show correspondent to the Colbert Report to his tenure in Late Night has always been about news and politics. It’s „comedy“ if you will but it’s also about delivering news in a way to highlight the absurdity of it all.
Yeah, that's a reasonable position. Makes sense.
Yeah, this is definitely a problem. It can be cured however with the algorithms.
It is cowardice.
They want more “reality” TV for the intellectually challenged maga.
Yup
Stephen colbert is my main man. Always will follow my main man Where ever you go! Boycott "CBS TV COMMERCIAL"
Props to the wordless post that wins the day if one is old enough to get it
I loved that show, too
Was a great show.
Was just coming here to post about this!🎯
that's beauty of being a ham radio operator. we talk for hours. the real beauty of it is you're talking smart people who were able to get a license which is no matter
I will never talk to father fuckers who brought us to this point. Never. Nor will I ever lend them a helping hand. I will absolutely let them starve as they let children starve. I will let them bleed out of wounds as women die from natural miscarriage.
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Colbert doesn’t need crappy broadcasting network. He already has 10 million viewers on YouTube and will easily double that when he’s off CBS. While it won’t be the kind of money he’s used to he could easily pull in a couple million dollars per year.
Time to Boycott CBS, Paramount and their sponsors for supporting and enabling the most corrupt President to ever occupy the Whitehouse! Trump is destroying our country, time to make corporations stand up for Democracy and the 1st Ammendment!!!! Money is our talking stick!!!!
Weird how they’re almost all pharmaceutical companies Companies that most people don’t do business with since most insurance companies refuse to cover these drugs and the out of pocket for a 30 days supply of the drugs is above & beyond most people’s weekly take-home pay
You do know we can talk about things completely unrelated to television, just sayin.
I wonder if there's a standard, or perhaps a doctrine, that could be put in place to ensure all sides a debate are dicussed fairly... Maybe would could call this the Fairness Doctrine? Has anything like this been tried in the USA before? Oh... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairnes...
Social media sites neither have nor need broadcast licenses do the Fairness Doctrine constitutionally could not apply to them.
Sure, but it can be put back in place for broadcast TV and radio. And there's also a case to be made for requiring it for the public internet platforms.
Internet platforms are not public - they are a private subscription service. How do you think putting in back in place for broadcast radio and TV would change anything?
All right wing broadcasters would have to give time to progressive voices, and right wingers would have to defend their views on less friendly channels.
Not really - it required diverse viewpoints, not opposing viewpoints. All those shows where the hosts talk over each other saying they don’t understand what they are talking about? Those meet the requirements of the Fairness Doctrine.
I’ve read a lot of “this is what the Fairness Doctrine did” posts but forcing people to face questions from unfriendly media is a new one.
Incorrect.
That's not how it worked. Right-wingers would continue to do whatever they wanted on their shows and the the stations that carried them would have some panel show on a Sunday morning and would air some 3-minute 3rd-party editorials at oddball times of day.
As someone who worked in local TV at the beginning of my career, in public affairs, I am here to tell you it was massively different for broadcasters under the fairness doctrine.
It was a relic long before it ended and most stations still meet the old guidelines. Wanting it for the internet(?) is stupid.
Incorrect
No. I’m absolutely correct. Sorry you are confused.
Wait, is there some moron on here who thinks the FD had a “No firing Colbert” clause? It wouldn’t be more wrong than most of the shit the FD fetishists believe.
They want it for… the internet. 🤦🏻♀️
It is a bizarre delusion on this website that that the FD would require *shows* to have to give time to the other side.
Only a fool would make that case.
The medium is not the message, as it were.
Sickening, mind you Vance over here talking about the end of freedom of speech in Europe!?! 🤢
Cant another channel pick him up?! We'd still watch
It's not "The End Of An Era For Television"; it's the end of the era OF television. Future historians will mark this occasion as the pivot point when digital became more relevant than scheduled network television.
I think skydance is spending a fortune on a station that has lost all its decent programming now, 60 mins, colbert, cbs news is now untrustworthy after all this. I mean no one is going to watch it now ?
Larry Ellison, the billionaire Trump donor who believed the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, bought CBS and installed his son as the boss. Next, they'll convert CBS into another right wing propaganda mill like Fox.
We need to have a criteria that says certain people are to rich to listen to If they’re right then their points will be echoed by those with a normal income and status. If they aren’t then it’s self serving bullshit
AFAIC, everyone who is rich (anyone who will never have to worry about paying the bills) are all equally disqualified to comment about common people issues. They’re completely clueless what it means to struggle, what a budget means, making important choices about living. Yet the rich owns the GQP.
Paying Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones is far less expensive than paying taxes so the wealthy do that instead
The end of a great institution. Oligarchs do no god for this democracy that made them ultra wealthy.
Better learn to get your news from outside sources
I can see future US comedians now.... "Remember that time the (still) president said he wasn't in the Epstein files? Well he was and he crusssssshed it."
Social media's a solo spell—no conversation, just echo chambers. TV was a campfire; this? A wizard's soliloquy. #MagicSorcery
😑 true
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How can we fix it? - I lost my parents to FAUX news and it sucks 💔
He can go to another outlet... help build the underground
This doesn’t bother me. I reside in a deep red state populated by many people who I can’t stand. I do not suffer assholes. As an aged person, my experience has taught me that small circles are less complicated with less baggage to deal with. This includes extended family.
Late-night TV was always such an important way for bands/artists to reach a wider audience, too. We'll always be grateful for the opportunities we had to play Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, etc. Another pipeline for musicians will vanish. Such a shame.
Holy crap I’d forgotten about it but I distinctly remember watching you guys on Arsenio
bud Colbert wasn't canceled because of media demographic siloing, it was canceled because he made fun of the current ruling imbecile, get your shit together
Lest we forget this is what an autocracy looks like. #USDemocracy #Colbert #StephenColbert #Colbert28 #Resist #StrongerTogether #BlueCrew
Looking forward to his podcast, newsletter, and other uncensored content. I hope he makes boatloads of money independent of the network.
honestly I'd subscribe to a video channel that was just 5 minutes of him and Evvie being adorable together every week
Not wrong
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Yep, gone are the days of Rin Tin Tin...
Networks are so old school. Even as a boomer, I stream.
Some of this might have been influenced by the Worldwide Pandemic....being in lockdown....how people actually communicate...and make a connection...it's the connection that's significant.
All die respect, but supporting the rule of law, Constitutional norms and basic human decency doesn’t feel like “siloing” in the least.
So wait: When I tell a maga to google a phrase to find out where my source is - when they google the same phrase it’s serves them not the information I saw - but information that confirms their bias? We’re doomed if that’s true.
Yeah, that’s the way I feel about being here on blue sky, but you can’t get me to go over there to Nazi Ville! Or NaXziLand
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It may have been a financial decision by CBS. The settlement may have been 16 million and fire Colbert in order to get approval for the Skydance deal. COLBERT for president!
Chilling indeed! TACO is even ruining comedy and late night shows. Coitus!
When you thought CBS would stop doing thing to screw themselves over! HERE WE GO AGAIN! The Trump screw everyone else and himself at the same time!
Get bent, CBS.
John Oliver did a great show several weeks ago about how broadcasters can and will be affected by Trump’s vengeful FCC in the coming years. It’s all about money (as usual) so we can expect others to bend the knee.
Death to the best of television.
I don’t want to talk to or attempt to seek common ground with people who want ethnic cleansing and that espouse this new theory that morality is only required of the left.
I don’t want to talk to or attempt to seek common ground with people who want ethnic cleansing and that affect this theory that morality is only required of the left.
Just one more symptom of authoritarianism
I haven't watched late night TV since Letterman retired. I tried Colbert, but he was not funny. The 2 Jimmy's worse. The loss for the US is control of media by the billionaires.
Are they so stupid not to know that it's far easier for its viewership to cancel CBS?
I talk to myself all the time and I listen to what I have to say. Others may ignore me, but not me. I give myself my undivided attention. Sometimes me and myself will have a tiny spat, but we always kiss and make up.
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@eliothiggins.bsky.social wrote a great thread on this. bsky.app/profile/elio...
It’s an attack on our 1st Amendment rights. FREEDOM of speech print etc. These lawyers n Networks are just rolling over allowing them power to take away our rights. Get mad join the resistance.
CBS is not the only one with a late night show. All of the rest of those great guys are solidly still in place. They have not backed down at all. CBC should be boycotted.
“Television” these days is worse thanks to the heavy hands of DJT and media owners. Plus one doesn’t exchange ideas with MAGA. I don’t want to talk with my MAGA relatives anymore. It’s a flipping waste.
I predict the end of CBS, ABC and NBC is a reality in the not too distance future and they will be a major factor in their own demise.
Just go on YouTube Monsieur Colbert.
Total boycott
In 2025 can we not establish some kind of TV membership channel where viewers pay a (high) fee to join with no ads and members vote on what shows to carry?
State run and approved presentations. It’s coming
i don't know anyone that still watches late night shows live. no one wants to see commercials anymore. sorry mad ave. i don't even watch american tv series any more.
I think you should say that the "silos" occurred in the past decade as Oligarchs took over MSM. They made sure there was only one message and that the ONLY news reported was what they wanted to push. Social Media just reflects that trend but happened much more quickly bc technology & youth
Most of MSM are simply not meeting this moment at all. I want the whole truth, not the rewriting and editing MSM does to make the old man look sane/normal. I'll be curious to see what happens with WSJ; will they cave and just pay him or...
With Paramount paying Trump 13 million because it didn’t edit a 60 minute interview to his liking explains a lot. They’ve already kissed the ring or whatever you have to kiss to keep him off your back. It’s easy to connect the dots here. Someone from the administration made a lot of noise.
Absolutely! We all gathered around Walter Cronkite. I'm old enough to remember Edward R. Murrow (always with a cigarette) on CBS as a unifying voice.
Maybe, an end to CBS?
No more blockbusters, no more house phones, no more horse and buggy. And yet, we still have movies, we still have phone communication and we still move around from place to place. No matter the platform, we will always have Stephen Colbert.
We were all on a similar page back then. 8pm TV shows everyone could talk about the next day.
It will go without saying that we all need to boycott, CBS and Paramount+
Orange fascism is here. Better learn to fight it, en masse.
Bye CBS
George, it’s much worse than that. To paraphrase a cliché “it’s the algorithms stupid“. They have the ability to create fractures on the left and cohesion on the right. Until the Democrats figure out how to deal with social media, we will never be able to express our power.
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Colbert show, go to Netflix. Did anyone hear when those Epstein files are going to be released?
Sad but true!
And as bad as that already is, it will get much, much worse as generative AI is used to create more mindless, meaningless -but highly personalized - entertainment vomited out by AI models trained on all the copyrighted intellectual property the tech bros could steal for their plagiarism machines.
Definitely first step. The question is-are they able to create and pass “foreign agents law” before their time is over?
Same problem addressed in a recent NCR piece (written, obv., from Catholic perspective, but it supports the point): www.ncronline.org/opinion/did-...
The cascading segmentation of the audience is NOT this story. This is.... When your country is explicitly run by a small cabal of self-enriching crooks, you get exactly what Russia is.....a shithole country.
Is 60 mins next? The orange felon can’t stand it when truth tellers speak about him and all his lies.
Most are echo chambers of like minds.
Colbert will go down as best talk show since Jack Parr started this. #Colbertforeverfudjt
