So, Stewart went on Crossfire, and then it was canceled.

[Plaid Adder]

Do you think this show will be canceled too, after Colbert's appearance?

Oh please oh please oh please,

The Plaid Adder

[Karenca]

1. HOPE so .... nt

[Junkdrawer]

2. If elements of the Media grow a spine, perhaps...

They where shown an example. It's a start...

[Gabi Hayes]

3. his appearance had little to do directly with the cancellation...

it was some months later

would that you were correct about current horrorshow; by which I mean the entire illegal regime....is that what you meant, too, or just the handmaidens' dinner?

[Coventina]

4. Well....it's been in endless reruns for awhile now....

maybe the end is near!

:-)

[madinmaryland]

5. Probably not.

It's one of the schmooze affairs, like all of the hollywood award shows. No way they'll ever cancel it, though the WH will probably make sure that whoever speaks is approved by them first. Expect to see Dennis Miller or someone like that next year.

[stellanoir]

6. When I woke up Sunday morning

before I had my tea, on that foggy threshold between sleep and wakefulnes, I read the transcript of Colbert's speech and I truly felt that for * to have to have heard it, it symbolized a paradigm shift of sorts regardless of how deftly the corporate media tries to repress it or minimize it.

There is a energetc theory that if one represses something it only gets stronger. Hope it applies in this instance.

[skids]

7. Yeah but not necessarily in the way you're inferring...

Bolten tipped his hand in only one area, suggesting that the White House might stop allowing its daily news briefing to be televised in full in hopes of discouraging posturing for the cameras and toning down the confrontational atmosphere. Television cameras were permitted only for the opening minutes of the briefing until Clinton White House press secretary Michael McCurry allowed them to air the entire session beginning in 1995.

Bolten said he would leave it up to new press secretary Tony Snow to decide whether to reverse that. "It's worth considering," Bolten said. "I think that will be Tony Snow's first test to see what kind of power player he really is and whether he's able to establish the right kind of relationship with the press that we need going forward."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/30/AR2006043000378.html

[kaygore]

8. In other words, is the press still their lapdog