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    caekislove-caekingitupJordan Sargent
    8/08/16 3:52pm

    John Oliver is like a Soviet knockoff of Jon Stewart.

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      Alaska Frambopolouscaekislove-caekingitup
      8/08/16 3:52pm

      Tough to take a Brit seriously.

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      Sparky Polastrycaekislove-caekingitup
      8/08/16 3:53pm

      John Oliver is actually fucking brilliant and anybody that actually watches his show would realize that....

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    ARP2Jordan Sargent
    8/08/16 3:54pm

    He touches on this a bit with the Adelson bit, but there’s a reason that Murdoch and Koch are buying up a number of newspapers, and it ain’t because they’re highly profitable. As you saw, major media outlets often get their stories or parts of their stories from newspapers. Now, what if those papers tended to cover conservative issues a bit more? Two things: 1) There’s a greater chance that mainstream media would pick them up because it’s partially packaged; and 2) A story that might not be fully true, suddenly has an air of legitimacy because an “independent” small newspaper covered it, not CNN, Fox, etc. You can create the narrative from the bottom up, rather than top down, just like conservatives have successfully done in local and state elections.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeARP2
      8/08/16 3:57pm

      You sound like an unhinged conspiracy theorist. The reason they’re buying up all those papers is so they can put a nude girl’s knockers on page 6. Simple, really.

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      Sobchak SecurityARP2
      8/08/16 3:57pm

      nailed it.

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    chickhaydenJordan Sargent
    8/08/16 4:09pm

    Thank God we have John Oliver. Once Stewart went off the air, I was worried there would be no one to excitedly explain my own opinions about that one article I just read back to me through the TV screen.

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      caekislove-caekingitupchickhayden
      8/08/16 4:20pm

      Not to mention those highly provocative 10-minute supercuts that clearly demonstrate that over the course of hours of broadcast news, the same words and phrases are used with a certain degree of frequency! That’s some real Mark Twain level shit right there!!

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      chickhaydencaekislove-caekingitup
      8/08/16 5:38pm

      Not to mention those highly provocative 10-minute supercuts that clearly demonstrate that over the course of hours of broadcast news, the same words and phrases are used with a certain degree of frequency!

      It’s true...and also, the broadcast media is actually dumb! Just don’t tell anyone that Rush Limbaugh’s been doing the exact same thing since the 80's ;/

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    Sid and FinancyJordan Sargent
    8/08/16 3:53pm

    Anyone know where to stream his whole show for free? kthx

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      caekislove-caekingitupSid and Financy
      8/08/16 4:18pm

      www.unfunnygarbage.com

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      shelwoodcaekislove-caekingitup
      8/08/16 4:40pm

      Jesus, did John fuck your mom or something? You seem weirdly obsessed with hating him.

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    99Telep☺dpr☹blemsJordan Sargent
    8/08/16 3:52pm

    I have heavily investifarted in Tronc in hopes they will produce light cycles.

    GIF
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      Syphilitic Scalia SaysJordan Sargent
      8/08/16 10:40pm

      Damn, that was a fine, understated performance by Bobby Carnvale.

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        sui_generisSyphilitic Scalia Says
        8/09/16 2:50am

        So much so that I actually didn’t think it was him.

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        Syphilitic Scalia Sayssui_generis
        8/09/16 6:23am

        It was him. He was just cycled off the cocaine and Olivia Wilde this past week.

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      pre-emptive sighJordan Sargent
      8/08/16 3:53pm

      augmented our own reporting

      Augmented reporting? I thought Gawker was just a comment site where the paid people got to comment first.

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        AK7007pre-emptive sigh
        8/08/16 4:23pm

        Gawker does good things. You just don’t remember them:

        http://www.wired.com/2016/06/10-sto…

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeJordan Sargent
      8/08/16 3:54pm

      Why does anyone need to know what’s going on in local news anyway? I’d rather find out that the subway in NY is closed for the month, or that the Mayor of Los Angeles ate a kosher burrito, than have to think about the lead in my water.

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        김치전!Jordan Sargent
        8/08/16 3:55pm

        Sargent totally missed the point of the Spotlight parody at the end, which was about how amazing it would be to cuddle with a raccat.

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          StoffelVonWaffle김치전!
          8/09/16 1:59pm

          Hey, it's a catraq buddy.

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        the actual bajmahalJordan Sargent
        8/08/16 4:21pm

        Do the original sources charge the aggregators (and the quoters and the commentators) for the content?

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          blameitonthecroutons goodbye tourthe actual bajmahal
          8/08/16 4:26pm

          If they did Huffington Post wouldn’t exist.

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