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Sponsored Content: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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What it is

A Last Week Tonight segment on sponsored content in local news. John Oliver explains why local news integrity matters and how paid content disguised as news erodes it.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN links it in threads about native advertising and disguised ads as a good, funny overview of sponsored content passing as news.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “There is a recent Last Week Tonight covering sponsored content on local news stations which is worth a watch as well.”

    Last Week Tonight segment on sponsored content on local news

    clan, 2021-06 · Recommendation · in “Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]”

  2. “John Oliver did a great segment on this on sponsored content on local news”

    Segment on disguised sponsored content in local news

    mdasen, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully deceiving’ consumers”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: native advertising, local news, media, john oliver, journalism

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