John Oliver really let new CBS News chief Bari Weiss, whose only journalism experience was in her own site, have it for the sheer audacity of accepting a position that puts her in charge of a real news organization. Via the Hollywood Reporter:
Oliver then brought up examples of stories reported by The Free Press that other outlets had contradicted with their own reporting, including accusations that the Transgender Center at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital was prescribing puberty blockers or hormone therapy without appropriately conducting mental health assessments; another on crime in Austin; and a third on starvation in Gaza.
As for that latter story, it was shared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his social media account with the caption “Facts matter.”
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