Last Week Tonight Last Night
In case you missed it, here is Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from Sunday. The Main Story was on unemployment. It was well-done and interesting, focusing on the inequities of the system, handled differently in all 50 states. And yes, they made it fun, as well.
I did find it more statistic-laden than usual, so the numbers tended to pile up on one another. I also had one quibble that bothered me -- at one point, they show video of Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear making a mistake in talking about a case of fraud, and then having to come back the next day the correct it. The takeaway from the show was to ridicule Beshear for the mistake. But not only was it a reason mistake to make -- though, yes, one that should have been fact-checked first -- but to me, the thing of far more note was that Gov. Beshear actually apologized in public, took full blame...and even called the person himself to apologize directly! People make mistakes, but to correct the mistake the very next day and apologize as well as he did is deserving of praise, not ridicule.
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