Us television industry articles
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John Oliver tackles the US corn industry: ‘You might be thinking, so what?’
The Last Week Tonight host looks into federal subsidies effects and ethanol standards upholding ‘America’s No 1 crop’John Oliver dug into the US corn industry on Last Week Tonight, from how the government subsidizes it, to its many uses and the effects of its dominance. The US is the world’s largest producer of corn, and produces more of it than any other crop. Farming it is a nearly $90bn industry; corn fields occupy nearly 90m acres a year, or about 5% of the land surface in the contiguous...
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US animation industry on ‘brink of collapse’ due to Hollywood strife
The US animation industry is on “the brink of collapse” due to a “perfect storm” of factors including sweeping industry cuts and the threat of artificial intelligence (AI), with
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US oil and gas industry is booming. So are its donations to GOP allies
Not Donald Trump. Not Ted Cruz. But a little known Republican from West Texas ranks as the top recipient of fossil fuel money. By Marcus Baram, Capital and Main August Pfluger, an Air Force veteran and member of the U.S. House representing a small district in West Texas, isn’t exactly a household name on the national political scene, with little press coverage in the last two months outside a recent Fox News appearance. But he is the country’s top recipient of campaign contributions from the...