Local "news" just a biased as national news...only dumber!-----John Oliver Fools Local Broadcast News Programs Into Promoting “Ridiculous” Fake Product

John Oliver Fools Local Broadcast News Programs Into Promoting “Ridiculous” Fake Product

• John Oliver on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight focused his main segment on the amount of sponsored content creeping into local news broadcasts under the guise of news.

"And at the end of his segment, he showed how “easy” it is to fool a program into doing a segment on a product for money — even a fake one.
“It is far too easy to make a ridiculous product that makes outlandish claims and get it onto local TV,” he said. “And the reason I know that is, we did.”
The show’s production team set up company called “Venus Inventions,” makers of the “Venus Veil,” described as “the world’s first sexual wellness blanket.”
They also created a website and hired an actress to ”brand-egrate the shit” out of the product into “shows it had no business being on.”
ABC4 in Utah took the bait, and ran a segment on it Friday. Oliver showed highlights from the broadcast.
Oliver said it was very easy to get the segment on the air and noted that the staffer interviewing the actress promoting the product was the station’s chief medical correspondent.
“It seems striking she didn’t have any follow-ups on claims we made about the veil that you would hope a medical correspondent would immediately take issue with,” he said...
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