Video: David Letterman Explains Blackmail Attempt | Peter Kafka

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
David Letterman Extortion Revealed . The network said late Thursday the person who was arrested works on the true-crime show 48 Hours and has been suspended.
Late night talk show host confessed to being blackmailed in an elaborate sexual extortion plot by a 48 hours producer. Letterman fans thought he was.