The state of journalism

This segment of John Oliver's show Last Week Tonight is far too brutally accurate to be funny. Even the throwaway jokes are precisely sourced: for example, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution indeed cut its full-time film critic in 2007, along with the remainder of its arts-critic staff. (Pierre Ruhe, at one time the AJC's excellent classical critic, is now the director of artistic planning at the Alabama Symphony.) One irony missed in the Spotlight parody at the end: the Boston Globe took great pride in that film, and yet it has been cutting back on arts criticism because it's not "clicky" enough.