• Barry Zuckerkorn@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It means his segment was more nuanced than I expected.

    They always are. I always cringe when I learn that a generalist journalist is covering something in my areas of expertise, because I worry that they’ll feed into misconceptions, but the two segments I remember John Oliver doing in areas that I have professional experience, he explained things better than an expert, in a way that laypersons could understand.

    So I’ve come to trust him a lot more than even more serious journalists, despite his show being a comedy show.