Article snippet: Posted at 8:00 pm on June 22, 2017 by Jim Jamitis Robert Murray, who heads up America’s biggest coal company, is suing comedian John Oliver over a segment on his comedy show Last Week Tonight. Oliver is often the subject of clickbait headlines about how he TOTALLY DESTROYED someone or something in one of his satirical news rants. His comedy gets pushed on left wing political blogs as if it were real news or analysis. These days you can’t even rely on real journalists to to provide balanced coverage of any given issue, a left wing comedian is certainly not going to be objective. Like Comedy Central’s Daily Show, HBO’s Last Week Tonight is one of those news themed comedy shows that many people—especially millennials—think delivers an accurate rundown of current events. There are many who readily admit that they get their news from comedy programs like this. The lawsuit alleges that the show contacted Murray Energy for information which they supplied but the comedy bit relied exclusively on discredited media reports. Leftists typically believe that nothing is sacred when it comes to attacking an industry that they feel is harming the planet. Exploiting a tragedy in order to defame a leader in that industry by falsely characterizing events is not surprising for comedy pseudo-news. Actually it wouldn’t be surprising coming from actual journalists. I hope the fact that Oliver’s program isn’t real news doesn’t give them an out. Link to the full article to read more