[MizSterious]

What matters to me is the one thing literally no one is talking about: the blackmailer is a CBS newsie. Award-winning, according to some articles. Everyone is enjoying giggling at the naughtiness of it all, while here we might have a clue as to how some news items might make it into print or on the air, and how some doesn’t. If enough money gets paid, perhaps it never sees the light of day?

[HapaxLegamenon]

Maybe he was about to do a story on Letterman and the check was Letterman’s idea. Maybe he accepted it because it would add to the story. Maybe he accepted it as a bride offered by Letterman to get him (news guy) to do a Palin story instead.

[an amused spectator]

Everyone is enjoying giggling at the naughtiness of it all, while here we might have a clue as to how some news items might make it into print or on the air, and how some doesn’t. If enough money gets paid, perhaps it never sees the light of day?

I made that very observation to a group of Letterman fans on USA Today yesterday.