“The media is a food chain that would fall apart without local newspapers.” John Oliver’s stark portrait of the state of journalism in an August 2016 episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight struck a chord with media throughout the United States. He continued by saying that “even if you only get your news from Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Arianna Huffington’s Blockquote Junction and Book Excerpt Clearinghouse, those places are often just repackaging the work of newspapers. So are TV news shows.”