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Now on YouTube: David Letterman’s Amazing Extortion Video

Peter Kafka in Media on October 2, 2009 at 3:38 am PT

This is the way the Internet is supposed to work: Something amazing happens on TV on Thursday night and everyone talks about it, and watches it, on the Web on Friday. Today’s example: David Letterman’s startling admission, broadcast on his CBS show last night, that a network employee had tried to extort him. That’s something you’re going to want to watch, right? And sure enough, the world’s largest video site obliges, even if it’s a little bit unwilling.