John Oliver NOT replacing Jon Stewart on The Daily Show

[Darren Dirt]

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Dr. Oz and Nutritional Supplements
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0wKeokWUU

ABOUT. DAMN. TIME. His uppance has been LONG coming!


(love most of the comments @ http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/06/23/watch-john-oliver-skewers-dr-oz-with-a-little-help-from-george-r-r-martin-steve-buscemi-and-an-adorable-puppy/ )

[Darren Dirt]

 

Oliver & Co. deal with the newly-rehashed Net Neutrality issue.
Briliantly, as usual.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU

PS: cable companies are freakin' EVIL!

Dammit, after Oliver's brilliance, millions of human persons voicing objections vs dozens of corporate persons submitting legal-team tomes... guess who the FCC listened to? http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/26/net-neutrality-dead-age-of-digital-discrimination-is-here


(not too shocking though, since FCC chief = former high exec for the cable companies ... and all corporations are by nature just ethics-free profit-motivated sociopaths at the core)

[Darren Dirt]

re. FCC's Net Netrality decision, a neat idea: techies protesting via throttling FCC access (only wish Google, Youtube, Wikipedia etc would join in!)

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/134371-FCC-Throttled-By-NeoCities-In-Net-Neutrality-Protest
https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited


Simple throttling code here - lotsa lols in the comments...
https://gist.github.com/kyledrake/e6046644115f185f7af0


(Federal IT decision being made by the FCC aka the bureacracy with stone-age IT infrastructure :sigh: )

[Darren Dirt]

SUPER glad Oliver got the LWT gig, that show is so fantastic beyond expectation. New host coulda been Brian Williams (since he was available, lol) but nope: http://forums.righteouswrath.com/index.php/topic,10555.msg84238.html#msg84238

[Darren Dirt]

LWT is becoming Serious Business.

33 minutes including almost 20 interviewing Edward Snowden!
The perfect "get-Americans-angry!" key point begins @ 24:46.

(you can see a funny 2 minute excerpt on choosing a strong password here)



...and on a purely comedic lebel, @ 31:10 Best* Quote Ever:
"That is a pretty inspiring answer to the question 'Hey why did you just send me a picture of your dick?' -Because I love America, that's why!"




...as former "Spill.com" cartoon/reviewer and "Sinister" screenwriter C. Robert Cargill says @ https://twitter.com/Massawyrm/status/584990249387864064

"So in just 18 minutes, the guy who played the drunk professor on COMMUNITY got Snowden to explain the NSA programs in plain English. Woah."



via http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-viewers-react-to-john-olivers-edward-snowden-interview-20150406-story.html




*close runner up:
"The good news is there's no program NAMED the dick pic program. The bad news is they are still collecting everybody's information, including your dick pics." -- Edward Snowden

[Darren Dirt]

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/14/john_oliver_laughs_in_the_face_of_a_reporter_who_calls_him_a_journalist_im_doing_the_job_of_a_comedian/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17TPkXGVCo

Thanks to the Snowden scoop by LWT, now John Oliver has to respond to being called (accused of being? [lol]) a "journalist"...
I'm doing the job of a comedian so I make jokes about the news -- I?m pretty clear about the lane that I?m in.

And he had to further respond to "you have more credibility than most journalists in the United States", thusly:
That is more an insult to the current state of journalism than it is a compliment for the state of comedy.




Yikes. So folks hosting COMEDY shows STILL have to explain to serious journalism-focused folks that they are not serious, credible journalists? How is this still a thing?

[Tom]

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/14/john_oliver_laughs_in_the_face_of_a_reporter_who_calls_him_a_journalist_im_doing_the_job_of_a_comedian/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17TPkXGVCo

Thanks to the Snowden scoop by LWT, now John Oliver has to respond to being called (accused of being? [lol]) a "journalist"...
I'm doing the job of a comedian so I make jokes about the news -- I?m pretty clear about the lane that I?m in.

And he had to further respond to "you have more credibility than most journalists in the United States", thusly:
That is more an insult to the current state of journalism than it is a compliment for the state of comedy.




Yikes. So folks hosting COMEDY shows STILL have to explain to serious journalism-focused folks that they are not serious, credible journalists? How is this still a thing?

I'm not surprised. News people (in NA at least) have been in the entertainment business, not the journalism business for years if not decades. No one really does hard journalism anymore, it just doesn't bring in the ratings. Except maybe these comedy shows. In LWT's case, it looks like they do a significant amount of research into John's rants.

But yeah, it is a big diss on the state of journalism in north america these days.

[Darren Dirt]

btw for fairness, there is a CONTEXT for the above -- 2:38 - 3:32

So, really, he's just paying a compliment** to Oliver & Co. -- he's not some out-of-touch confused old-guard guy who is actually THINKING he's talking an actual journalist... so... my bad, [accidental click bait kinda -- I feel like BuzzFeed now, but WAY less dirty]



Info on who this "Jorge Ramos" interviewer guy is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Ramos_%28news_anchor%29






** and WELL-DESERVED! I mean, John and his writers pretty much single-handedly saved the internet! see 4:08 - 4:36

[Mr. Analog]

"The Business" started in the 80s with 60 Minutes it was the first news program that turned a profit, prior to that news was disliked by TV networks because it was both a requirement and not attractive to advertisers (who wants their product in your face after hearing bad news, nobody)

I found a good article on the rise of TV news media as entertainment, particularly how editorializing shifted news from simple fact based fear-mongering (i.e. number of MURDERS on a daily basis) to less obvious fear-mongering (i.e. Government legislation COULD change how much you pay at the pump... after these messages)