John Oliver is the host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, which is one of the funnier news and comedy shows in the vein of progressive liberal eviscerates conservatives and Donald Trump and nonliberal perspectives. (See Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, et al.) As expected, Oliver is not happy about the news that Bari Weiss is now the editor in chief of CBS News following Paramount's $150 million acquisition of her news site, The Free Press.

In the latest episode of his show, Oliver spent nearly 35 straight minutes skewering Weiss and The Free Press and explaining why she is a bad fit to run not just CBS News, but any news network. In doing so, he betrayed a fundamental myopia about the legacy media's own failings.

To be fair, some of Oliver's criticisms are perhaps not entirely without merit. It

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