John Oliver On The Future Of Newspapers [VIDEO]

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“The media is a food chain that would fall apart without local newspapers,” Oliver said, noting the pricing structure of online versus print ads and detailing the decline of great papers like The Oregonian, and the increased workload on the remaining reporters. “If journalists are constantly required to write, edit, shoot videos, and tweet, mistakes are going to get made,” he said. “But here is where it gets frightening,” Oliver said: When papers cut full-time statehouse reporters to focus on online content, and their leaders give in to “the temptation to gravitate toward whatever gets the most clicks,” corruption can thrive. “The truth is, publishers are desperate,” Oliver said. “No one seems to have a perfect plan to keep newspapers afloat.”