Mournful tributes piling up in his wake aren’t about him. Network television is dying. Letterman was one of its last national figures. Wait until network television dies its inevitable demographic death
David Letterman’s departure isn’t the end of an era. The era of late night talk shows ended a while back.
In Johnny Carson’s final week in the nineties, he played to an audience of twenty million. Lately, Letterman has been lucky to get 2 million. His final shows have played to around 5 million viewers.