Economically Incorrect:

“Last week, ABC officially announced what many industry watchers had expected for several months: The late-night talk show Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher would be canceled, and replaced in the fall by a new entertainment program hosted by Comedy Central’s Jimmy Kimmel. When the news broke, most media reports pegged Politically Incorrect’s demise on Maher’s “unpatriotic” remarks in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Yet while there’s some truth to the notion, this interpretation ignores other, more powerful market forces that have worked to replace an important televised forum of political dissent with the latest incarnation of “must-sleaze” TV.” The American Prospect