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"You have a quote that I found interesting, where you said the problem is the loudest journalism in America is generally saying the least. Can you unpackage that?" (www.youtube.com)

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"With our show... no one in their right mind would try and do a show about prison health. No one. No one wants to hear about that. But they should know about it! And so we're going to force-feed it to them, and we're in a very very lucky position, because we don't have the commercial pressures that other certain news outlets do have. So we are lucky to be able to follow whatever interests us, and force-feed it to people, but they can't or won't do that.

"And so you are left with kind of yammering talking heads on TV who are are really not talking about much. The problem with being in a perpetual election cycle -- and we're in election year now, it never really feels like the election year stops -- that's the problem, right? And that takes out all the air from a room, because you're just talking about people, candidates, politicians -- whereas policies are much more important than politicians.

"But we are focused on the personalities, and that's easy to do, but it's not the most important stuff."

-John Oliver

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Aside from the great interview and jokes John put down, I’m genuinely impressed this self-effacing, extremely British man made it through all the sauces. And he gave an all-time quote for the existence of Da Bomb too.