Important because both sides should be holding the people of power accountable, but you don't want the person in power to go, hey, you don't agree with me and you have a late night show. Well, you're off the air. If the show was making 1 million a year, not even 100 million, 1 million a year. This is a very hard thing to cancel without blowback. They, unfortunately for Colbert and his supporters, have an economic justification for the cancellation, even though I believe they're being disingenuous in terms of why they did it in this moment. (2:40:23–2:40:33)
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Asserts that a show generating even $1 million annually would be difficult to cancel without backlash.
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