Though Stewart acknowledged that late-night TV is “a struggling financial model” akin to “operating a Blockbuster kiosk inside of a Tower Records,” he warned media institutions about backing down.
“If you believe, as corporations or as networks, you can make yourselves so innocuous that you can serve a gruel so flavorless that you will never again be on the boy king’s radar…Why will anyone watch you?” Stewart said. “And you are fucking wrong.”
— Regine CabatoReplicated under Fair Use from Patrick Soon-Shiong says he’ll take the L.A. Times public within a year by Regine Cabato.