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Response To John Oliver: Struggles Of The Journalism Industry

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I decided to write my response to John Oliver’s video about the struggles of the journalism industry. Oliver discusses the struggles that individuals with a journalism career face daily. Struggles include producing newsworthy materiel vs producing material for profit, lower pay/layoffs, and editors forcing an online presence from reporters. One issue that Oliver points out is that a lot of substance used by bigger news stations and news anchors are from smaller news stations, which I have never noticed before. Oliver uses his show as an example of this act in the journalism world saying that he quoted a man’s work from a smaller news organization. What I think is weird about this is that reporters from smaller news stations don’t necessarily
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