Last Wednesday, Stephen Colbert, the icon of political satire of the late night Americans, let their viewers know that CBS canceled his show. It won't be lightning fast. The late show It will end, if nothing changes, in May of next year. They are ending the format, surely due to the discomfort that the genre causes them. The fact that Colbert is the ratings leader has made the political interpretation of the events inevitable. A concession to the threatening pressure from Trump, a daily target for Colbert's darts. Days before the decision was announced, the host denounced on the same program that Paramount Global—the parent corporation—had paid Trump $16 million for a lawsuit over an old interview on the show. 60 minutes where the president believed he had been defamed. It was revealed by the New York Times. Colbert humorously criticized the institutional corruption in that case, because the agreement coincides with corporate interests that require approval from the Federal Communications Commission and, therefore, the Trump administration. Upon returning from vacation, Colbert called it "abig, hat bribe" (a huge bribe) and made his disappointment with the company public. Three days later, he received the cancellation notice.

60 minutes (60 minutes, in Catalan) is a classic American television program, broadcast weekly on CBS since 1968. Each episode features three current affairs reports, and throughout its history the program has revealed historic news such as the torture carried out by American troops in the Iraqi prison of Abu Ghraib. Bill Owens, the third executive producer since the program's inception, announced this week that he has stepped down due to a lack of journalistic independence. The executive claimed that he cannot exercise editorial freedom within a political environment that, according to the former producer, influences decision-making regarding the content that reaches the audience.