John Oliver took the opportunity on Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight” to do a deep dive on Bari Weiss , the opinion journalist and co-founder of the Free Press who is now the editor-in-chief of CBS News.

Paramount, the parent company of CBS which recently merged with David Ellison’s Skydance, announced last week that it would be acquiring Weiss’ Free Press and that she would be leading the broadcaster’s newsroom. The decision raised eyebrows as Weiss is known for her contrarian takes and, as Oliver pointed out, does not have much experience in hard news.

“She’s been given editorial control of a massive news organization even though she’s never run a TV network, has no experience directing television coverage and, as one ’60 Minutes’ producer pointed out, is not even a report

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