RE: My Response To John Oliver's Attack On EOS & His Hypocrisy. Plus A Comment on Misrepresentation of Reality By TV Shows.
I think what we forget is that this, and really 24 news channels too, is entertainment. A breakdown of the technology and use cases of EOS wouldn't be entertaining for your average Joe Shmo who has no idea what blockchain is. So, from John's perspective it's easier to crack jokes about about an eccentric spokesperson and iguanas. Like it or not, blockchain is complicated and the economic changes that come with it are just as complex. I think TV media is going to do a disservice to crypto for a long while and I'd say it's just because it's easier to get people to think of something they don't understand as a scam or "gambling" than it is to truly educate them on why it may be a good product. I think we have good times to come and who knows EOS may be a big part of that.
But... How can EOS change this iguanas? Sorry, I had to.
You bring up some good points, maybe I am painting him to broadly. I just see a general theme across all of the media outlets, traditional investors, and governments, in that they talk negatively about cryptocurrency/blockchain with no real reason as to why they think the way they do. It just seems the popular thing to say these days. But, who knows maybe there is something more to all this than it just being popular to bash crypto.
I do agree with you that it could absolutely negatively impact EOS. A lot of people watch John and now all of his viewers are only going to think of unicorn weddings and chicken mcnuggets when they think of EOS and that unfortunate.
Hopefully though, reasonable investors will do their own research and not just invest based on a TV personality.
I will also not be investing in a ICOliver.
The problem with labelling such information programming as 'entertainment' as if it has no meaning in the context of real life, is that it DOES have context and meaning in real life. Many people have seen John's show focus on other topics in ways that do raise very valid points and for them he represents a voice of 'authority' on 'truth seeking' which he himself might play down, but which in truth he does play into by the fact that his shows continue to be aligned towards the theme of 'revealing truth' and 'educating' in an entertaining way.
John doesn't come on screen in a clown outfit for a reason - because he is not a pure entertainer of that kind.
It is easy to crack the same joke about iguanas AND point a finger of fun at Brock Pierce while ALSO giving an accurate description of EOS, which he absolutely did not even attempt to do. The irony is that in his alleged 'protecting' of people's investments by his 'good advice' - he could have actually reduced some of the value of investments made in EOS - which is not exactly an act of protection.
I'll just say that I won't be buying into the inevitable OliverCoin ICO ;)
Who gets his news from satire? One shouldn't in any case.