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Sponsored Content: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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 HN readers recommended it
HN links it in threads about native advertising and disguised ads as a good, funny overview of sponsored content passing as news.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- LastWeekTonight
- Topic
- sponsored content in local news
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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There is a recent Last Week Tonight covering sponsored content on local news stations which is worth a watch as well. [VIDEO]
clan on Hacker News · 2021-06
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