John Oliver returns to the air this Sunday to start his new season. In this interview, he talks about all sorts of things, including his contempt for the White House Correspondents Dinner.
With regard to the issue of "fake news," it seems to me we need some new terminology here. People are trying to draw a parallel between Kellyanne Conway talking about imaginary massacres and a comedian like Stephen Colbert joking that Donald Trump gave an engagement ring to Vladimir Putin. They're calling both "fake news" as if they're the same but one is intended to deceive and one to amuse. And most of the ones intended to amuse are built on the presumption that the audience knows it's an outrageous exaggeration or distortion. Maybe we should just call one "false news" and the other, "joke news." It's a shame we may need to make that distinction.