Media companies may have laid off more than 2,100 journalists last week as they scale back in search of profits, but The Washington Post is splashing out on a $5.2 million Super Bowl ad starring Tom Hanks to teach Americans how important journalism is in the age of President Donald Trump.
The ad, USA Today reports, will "highlight the role of journalists around the world who gather news, oftentimes in the face of grave danger." It will be narrated by A-list actor, director, and producer Tom Hanks, who has been an outspoken advocate for the media these last two years, even delivering a brand new, $1700 coffee machine to the "embattled" White House Press Corps.-- More...
