John Oliver, 'Last Week Tonight'

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Above is a video of John Oliver's 'last week tonight' episode. He examines journalism and how its changed and says we are to blame.
Oliver dedicates a whole episode of his HBO show to analysing the decreasing financial state of journalism.

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