Last Week Tonights take on cryptocurrencies was in general rather fair and balanced, except the EOS part. I mean if you want to make fun of hyped ICOs from last summer Tezos and what happened after their ICO would be (IMHO) a much better target.
One thing I was missing was Ethereum: to me it seemed a little odd that it wasn't mentioned, since it is currently the number 2 cryptocurrency and trying to achieve something similar to EOS. And speaking of which, it was never really mentioned what EOS actually is and what block.one tries to achieve with it, instead EOS was portrait as a collection of buzzwords.
Also omitting Dan Larimer and his previous projects gives the impression that Last Week Tonight is sacrificing depth and journalistic integrity for cheap laughs (the same can be said for their recent bit about the Italian election or an older one about Laibach in North Korea).
Sure, John Oliver is a satirist and not a journalist, but if you give facts why stopping halfway and only painting a distorted picture, when you are trying to give the impression that you are painting the full picture.
This "distorted picture" was completely intentional. That show is politically biased.
I am aware of that, and that's why I was a bit surprised, that the fist parts of their take on cryptocurrencies were rather fair, balanced and well researched. For the part about EOS this stopped.
That's a good summary of the LWT episode. And as someone who has dabbled in satire for close to a decade, I agree with your last paragraph 100%.