“The Late Show” and its competitors are not a public good, and CBS isn’t required to subsidize something that isn’t serving their interests. But even still, it’s worth mourning a type of show premised on the idea that we all lived in a shared reality, one that a gifted bridger of increasingly broad gaps between us might make coherent and make funny. “The Late Show” wasn’t built for these times; one dreads imagining the type of show that would be.“
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