HBO’s John Oliver had a nearly 40-minute long meltdown on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight as he denounced Paramount CEO David Ellison’s decision to name Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News. Despite Weiss being a liberal who simply thinks the left has gone too far on things like DEI, transgenderism, and Israel, Oliver lamented that Ellison has inserted “right-leaning opinion journalism into an American icon.”
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Seeing a trend, Oliver added, “But the thing is, it's not just about Ellison, either. Again, he's just the latest in a string of billionaires who've taken over our journalistic institutions, from The Washington Post to The LA Times, and started making worrying changes. And whatever complaints I might've had with their coverage before, and I've had plenty! My solution would never have been this.”
Oliver claims to differentiate between news organizations and opinion websites, but it is the Post’s opinion section that has shifted towards free markets.
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