I chose this screenshot for the pretty girl. I'm still more ethical than The Atlantic.
HBO'sLast Week Tonight with John Oliver has been on the air for a few months now, and its in-depth takedowns of various crappy parts of American life have become a Monday morning blog staple. Hopefully, that won't change with this segment attacking the (not at all) proud tradition of disguising advertising as news stories. He highlights BuzzFeed as the masters of this genre, although they're only half-news. The real condemnation goes to the old-line news outlets that used to have strict rules about not mixing editorial and business, which used to be known as the "separation of church and state." By the way, you're really gonna want a Diet Coke after this, and also Ebola:
To be fair, as he points out, the reason this is happening is that consumers (you and me) refuse to pay for newspapers or sign up for their online paywalls. I mean, who reads more than 10 New York Times articles a month? Why would you possibly need more news than one article every three days? Absurd.
By the way, we're not a news site, so you may address your inquiries to advertising@someecards.com without feeling like you're destroying the remnants of America's journalistic traditions. We never had any to begin with.
(by Johnny McNulty)