COMS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Outsourcing
5 Feb 2018
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Next thursday we"ll go over the midterm format. Media artifact the link will go up in critical responses. The clip goes a little further than a reaction to the weekly news. The entire segment digs deeper and tries to find the causes of journalism. The clip is 20 minutes and the entire clip will be shown. He focuses on newspaper but you can use starr, baker, or waddell (not just starr who also focuses on newspapers) How john oliver is characterizing the causes and then the solutions. Spotlight (the movie) talks about how journalism is declining. Solutions to this issue: conversion of newspapers from commercial to nonprofit. Ex: guardian (funded by private trust: philanthropic support for journalism itself.
