Stephen Colbert’s final Late Show received farewell coverage from much of the mainstream press, but CBS Mornings did not mention it. The omission was described as intentional rather than accidental, tied to a directive from CBS News president Tom Cibrowski. The reported trigger was a Colbert segment mocking CBS News’s failure to secure a China visa for anchor Tony Dokoupil, including a parody of Dokoupil reporting from “The Wrong China” and a comedic pumpkin gag. Sources characterized the response as unprofessional and unprovoked, despite CBS News previously supporting Colbert during his cancellation and FCC dispute. Anchor Gayle King still posted a farewell on Instagram and attended the finale afterparty. Separately, Bill Carter said CBS capitulated to Trump by booting Colbert.
"CBS Mornings did not mention Colbert's final Late Show once last Friday, one day after the host signed off from the network with a star-studded swan song. And that wasn't an oversight, Puck founder Matthew Belloni wrote on Tuesday, after noting there were no highlights and not a single mention of a pretty major event on its own network."
"Why? I'm told the ghosting was a specific directive from CBS News president Tom Cibrowski, who hated Colbert's recent bit mocking their failure to secure a China visa for anchor Tony Dokoupil, Belloni wrote. Colbert kicked colleagues when they were down,' one source at CBS News told me today. It was unprofessional and unprovoked.'"
"The segment that angered Cibrowski mocked Dokoupil for reporting from The Wrong China he was forced to broadcast from Taiwan during President Donald Trump's China trip because of the botched visa and showed a phony version of the anchor with his head stuck inside a pumpkin. It then showed an old lady portraying Bari Weiss entering the shot and smacking him on the head with a mallet in an effort to help him out, apparently."
"It wasn't a complete gag order, though: Anchor Gayle King posted a gushing farewell to Colbert on Instagram and hit the finale afterparty on Thursday night, he added. In related news, veteran TV reporter Bill Carter said CBS had capitulated to Trump by booting Colbert during an interview on MS NOW last weekend. It's not a good development for the country, obviously, the ex-New York Times reporter said about Colbert's exit."
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