Nick's Lead Blog Response

As I watched the clip from Nick's blog post, (I watched the thing in it's entirety) I realized that John Oliver's entire point was to rile people up and piss people off. He even mentioned how someone might be infuriated about a clip he put in the show. I don't enjoy this kind of entertainment, but I understand why it works. I think if I was more invested in the NCAA I definitely would have found myself getting angry about the content, just like Oliver wants. He makes a good argument throughout with his use of statistics and first hand accounts. Personally, I try to avoid watching inherently angry clips like this; it makes me anxious. Most of Oliver's jokes worked and I did enjoy the beginning of the clip and a few of the jokes throughout, but like I said, this clip had few purposes other than inciting anger in the viewer. John Oliver himself spoke with anger. I'm not trying to say this is necessarily a bad thing, but it definitely isn't for me.