Sponsored Content: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Recommends clan · 2021-06 · on “Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]”

There is a recent Last Week Tonight covering sponsored content on local news stations which is worth a watch as well. [this video]

Recommends mdasen · 2021-12 · on “Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully deceiving’ consumers”

There's THE TRUTH and the truth ( [LINK] if you haven't seen that Simpsons episode). Let's say that I do an hour-long infomercial on a product and I try and make the infomercial look as much like content as I can. In fact, it's not just about the product. We talk about the news and weather as well. You watch 30 minutes of it and don't notice that at the end it says that it was sponsored. I clearly said it was sponsored. Just because you stopped watching before then isn't my fault, right? John Oliver did a great segment on this on sponsored content on local news: [this video] Google's search results used to use a different background color and borders to distinguish ads from organic results. Now t

Cites lesuorac · 2023-02 · on “Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them”

I would say its hard to do any rational thinking about come to the conclusion that the 24/h news orgs are meant to inform you. The easy angle is product placement [1]. Literally fork over a small sum of money and you get the news org to rave about your product without doing any verification. There's also how a headline is not written by the author so it won't always reflect the contents of the article. > And a lot of the times is just because news are not validating their own beliefs IMO, the news orgs have a symbiotic relation with their viewers. The viewers want their viewpoint reinforced and the news org wants views. So the news org put out a biased product so that their viewers will sele