The year 2016 is soon coming to an end. People on social media are looking back on the year. Many are saying 2016 was one of the worst years in recent memory. Television personality John Oliver, for example, spent much of his final show of the year discussing how bad the last 12 months were. He said, “Let’s face it: 2016 has been one calamity after another.”
Title: Was 2016 the Worst Year Ever?
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1585/2016_worst.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Was 2016 the Worst Year Ever?' data-article-id='2101'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='5417'>The year 2016 is soon coming to an end.</span> <span data-start-time='5417' data-end-time='10396'>People on social media are looking back on the year.</span> <span data-start-time='10396' data-end-time='17521'>Many are saying 2016 was one of the worst years in recent memory.</span> <span data-start-time='17521' data-end-time='30854'>Television personality John Oliver, for example, spent much of his final show of the year discussing how bad the last 12 months were.</span> <span data-start-time='30854' data-end-time='39333'>He said, “Let’s face it: 2016 has been one calamity after another.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1585/2016_worst.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' 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