This is exactly right. I find John Oliver entertaining, but I'm acutely aware that he gets eyeballs by stoking outrage. And the few times he touched on subjects

This is exactly right. I find John Oliver entertaining, but I'm acutely aware that he gets eyeballs by stoking outrage. And the few times he touched on subjects I know something about, I felt he was being misleading (at best). John Oliver is popular in a certain political niche (which includes me, btw). I don't think he's representative of the population as a whole. I'm not representative of the population as a whole either. 30 cities have cancelled Flock. Thousands haven't. What lesson am I supposed to draw from that?