So if you want to know why your local radio, tv, letterman show sucks big time:

This article on Letterman's production company moving into the music business:

http://www.canoe.ca/TelevisionLetterman/jul9_letterman.html

Viacom is who owns CBS. A revealing list of the properties:

http://www.caslon.com.au/mediaprofiles/viacom.htm

And finally, the answer to What Do Advertisers Have to Do With It? another revealing article on the recent "brand name advertiser pact between Viacom and Proctor and Gamble:

http://www.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-6135702-0.html

I challenge those defenders of Letterman's "right" to broadcast whatever Worldwide Pants feels is fit to broadcast to its audience to do a little of reading.

None of these sites are corporate conspiracy sites. Just plain ole globalisation business as usual news.

Letterman wants in on the younger, hipper audience it is trying to reach--hence "Ed" tv show on NBC, and other "projects" of Worldwide Pants.

The MTV connection through CBS-Viacom is also central to this.

Also begs the question, why is Ani courting that sort of attention, don't it?