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Journalism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight · 15.1M views · 2016-08-08 · 19:23

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A Last Week Tonight segment on the decline of the newspaper industry and what it means for journalism, including local reporting. It uses John Oliver's comedic commentary and references the film Spotlight.

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HN cites it in discussions of news economics and repackaged reporting, though some commenters say they distrust Oliver as a source.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2016–2017

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justifier · 2017-03 · Recommendation

tangential to this is the fact that a lot of 'news' is repackaging an original source for each platform John Oliver had a great segment on this: [VIDEO]

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rootlocus · 2017-09 · Reference

> there is no problem first off and malware is not how you would solve this fantasy of a "problem". If you think consuming content online without paying anything for it isn't a problem, you're wrong and it's not even debatable [1]. I'm not saying this is a good solution. I'm just pointing out it's not a "fantasy" of a problem. 1. [VIDEO]

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abandonliberty · 2017-06 · Reference

That's a very interesting thing to try to quantify. I would say they had _more_ integrity, but risks always existed. Reuters used to have a corporate structure that would prevent it from capture, and even that didn't guarantee impartiality. Multiple revenue streams (sales, classifieds) would make them less beholden to advertisers. Of course they would still have to write material that sold! I don't like to use John Oliver as a source, but there's some decent content in this: [VIDEO]

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