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John Oliver clearly has a political leaning but I don't believe he states anything untrue as fact.

• lake99 10y ago
  That was not my point. Where exactly did I say he does that? He commits glaring omissions in favour of the people on his side.
  • tempestn 10y ago
    I agree with you that reporting selective truths can still be a very strong form of bias. However, Oliver is completely open about the fact that he's entirely biased. It's clearly editorial. (And also clearly a comedy, not a serious news program.) I could still see an argument that the bias is unfair, but in my opinion far more insidious are organizations like Breitbart (and I'm sure some left-leaning ones as well) that use this selective truth-telling to serve their biases while making an effort to appear unbiased.