IN HEATED POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT, TIME-WARNER-CNN-HBO RESPONDS TO CALLS TO TONE DOWN RHETORIC: Bill Maher Sees ‘Zodiac Killer’ GOP Plan’; Too Many ‘Waste-Making’ Kids.
Actually between Maher dropping the N-word on air and his corporate associates’ love of assassination porn, for Time-Warner-CNN-HBO in 2017, perhaps that does count as dialing back the rhetoric.