Post #2382537
2026-04-29 20:17 UTC
I get your point but I do think it’s a little reductive to gloss over the fact that Oliver and Stewart have done an actually-good job of covering news all these years.
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@wjrii@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 04:22
I was sort of intentionally being reductive to make the point that it’s pretty fucked up that our bravest and most trustworthy media figures all come out of comedy, some of it pretty low-brow. There’s some decent voices in the American mainstream media, but most of them are so terrified of getting canceled by the so-called free-speech absolutists that the satirists (if one can even call Kimmel that) are having to do real work in spreading information and speaking truth to power.