Watched "Spotlight" the other day, great movie.Mother Jones 

 

David Simon: The day I run into a Huffington Post reporter at a Baltimore Zoning hearing is the day I will be confident that we've actually reached some sort of equilibrium. ..There's no glory in that kind of journalism but that is the bedrock of what keeps, you know,... the next 10 or 15 years are going to be a halcyon era for state and local political corruption, it's going to be one of the great times to be a corrupt politician. 

 

John Oliver: He's right. Not having reporters at government meetings is like a teacher leaving her room of 7th graders to supervise themselves. Best case scenario Brittany gets gum in her hair, worst case scenario you no longer have a school. 

Oliver also references Gatehouse Media's Las Vegas newspaper, Las Vegas Review,  re:Sheldon Addleson .