[JackFr]

It's a terrible look for CBS. At the same time, I find it unbelievable that they don't fire Colbert. This is obvious gross insubordination, and he is an employee.

His final show is coming in May, and I'm sure that they can expect Colbert to continue to embarrass them (as the spineless sycophants they are) every week until then. It's a tremendous self own.

[wildzzz]

Colbert is not a CBS employee. He runs Spartina Productions which, along with Busboy Productions, produces The Late Show for CBS. It's a coordinated project of the three companies, he's not their employee and likely can't just cancel the show except for very specific circumstances.

[ishouldstayaway]

> likely can't just cancel the show

Because they already have?

[ImPostingOnHN]

"insubordination" is such a weird term:

If you don't like a coworker questioning your behavior, maybe don't engage in questionable behavior;

If you just want them to do what you say unquestionably, maybe you should have been born during a time when slavery was more common;

If you are having trouble getting good output out of a direct report that previously has produced good output, chances are you are currently a failure of a boss; and if you use terms like "insubordination" instead of asking "what am I doing wrong?", you probably have pointy hair, too.

[hn_acker]

> This is obvious gross insubordination

Really? CBS's lawyers cited the equal time rule, which only applies to broadcasts sent over limited airwaves. I think the equal time rule doesn't actually apply in this case (because why couldn't CBS provide equal time in the near future? who even requested equal time and was denied it?), but more relevantly the equal time rule does not apply to publishing the same interview over the internet instead of over the "air".

[msie]

Ha, it's spineless that they are self-censoring themselves. Whatever happened to Freedom of the Press?

[unethical_ban]

Firing satirists is moral now?