Frankly---who cares!! Why does such a situation make such huge headlines? There are important stories out there (war, famine, natural disasters, huge cultural items, philanthropy, etc;) and the media (save for a few) is focused on this nonsense.   The NY Times, alone of all media I believe, let the entire thing go with a paragraph in the Arts/Leisure section.

Only in America, as the expression goes. In Europe it is no big deal and the proof are the shenanigans of Berlosconi, Sarcozy, et al.

One good thing in all this is that Letterman foiled it and went to the DA. The strange thing is that a highly paid (I assume) CBS producer in the news division (Oh how that has fallen since the days of giants) was ALLEGEDLY so greedy.

One last item---DL was not married but had been in what might be termed a common law marriage for many years and legalized it just recently. So--in effect he was partaking in adultry. As said---who cares.

A side effect on all this will be if other late night comics now can use him as a joke as he has done with other famous people. That could cost him and CBS (who hold the purse strings) listeners. After all Leno appeals to Middle America and DL to the coasts. Heaven forbid Leno had hit such publicity---he would have really stuck his chin out.   Could not resist that one.

Bill Hahn