1970-01-01 3 hours ago

"Didn't air" doesn't mean what you think it means. It means the interview didn't go over the airwaves via broadcast towers. The full interview is online, which thanks to the Streisand effect already has millions of views and therfore helped CBS in terms of funding. This can be seen as a 4D chess move by CBS. They'll certainly do this again if they're hitting millions of views.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A

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hackyhacky 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> This can be seen as a 4D chess move by CBS.

It isn't. CBS is owned by the Ellisons, who are big Trump supporters. They are absolutely complicit in attempts to quash dissenting voices.

You're right that the Streisand effect is in play here, but it's not 4D chess. It's garden-variety incompetence, because the policy makers in the government are too old to see anything other than broadcast TV as the most valuable medium.

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mindslight 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Comedians have a knack for succinctly expressing the truth:

> "Let's just call this what it is: Donald Trump's administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV," Colbert joked.

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tialaramex an hour ago | parent [-]

Technically doesn't Trump also spend a lot of time golfing, and attending events where people praise Trump - admittedly for broadcast on TV but not necessarily while watching TV?

I see that it's become harder to track because the White House doesn't disclose what he's doing as much, but yeah, lots of golf still.

	▲	mindslight 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, jokes are often technically incorrect while performing a directionally-correct summation of the matter. But also, the few times I've been unfortunate enough to have to go to mega golf venues, the clubhouses generally have prominent TVs all over the place. So there is quite the demographic overlap.

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fwip 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The youtube video currently has ~1.4 million views. Colbert averages 2 to 3 million television viewers per night, plus some number of youtube views that I haven't looked up the stats for.

That is, this interview has been seen by fewer people than it would have, had it been on television.

	▲	otterley an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Let's give it some time. It hasn't been up that long, and it's already gone up to 1.9MM views in the 2 hours that have elapsed since you posted this.
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jasonlotito 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> "Didn't air" doesn't mean what you think it means. It means the interview didn't go over the airwaves via broadcast towers.

That means exactly what I thought it meant. It's still just as bad.

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patmorgan23 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's 4D chess by Colbert and his producer, not the network.