alt Hacker News"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.
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> 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.
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.
> "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.
It's 4D chess by Colbert and his producer, not the network.