lol.
John Oliver is misleading because his 15 minute long pieces, on subjects that a full length documentary couldn't cover in two hours, aren't in depth enough.
Omitting key facts is dangerous? GTFO with that. I guess you find every newspaper on the planet dangerous, every news broadcast, every news magazine show like 60 minutes, every documentary etc etc to be dangerous.
Or he's like every other OPINION based show where he is trying to highlight a subject and sometimes that means massaging the facts a bit and only showing you the worst side of a subject in order to get people to become interested in a topic and use his show as a jumping off point to become educated.
If you you don't know all the facts on a subject it is your fault. Not John Oliver's. What a ridiculous thing to even say.
And this whole "oh he's only comedy so it doesn't count". Really? because he is more honest and accurate than any news broadcast on the big 4 networks, on any of the cable news networks, of any of the news magazine shows.
So what is John Oliver less accurate than? The Economist? The New Yorker? Academic journals? If this is the standard we are holding him to, then clearly we've lost sight of what matters.
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