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Sponsored Content: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
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.
HN links it in threads about native advertising and disguised ads as a good, funny overview of sponsored content passing as news.
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