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Business Insider, Dave Portnoy Hit Pieces, and Fake Journalists

from #277 - The New American Dream | The Tim Dillon Show · #277

4 min

Tim explains how a Business Insider reporter/failed comedian interviewed him and later revealed the outlet wanted a hit piece on him, leading into a taxonomy of journalists vs. stenographers vs. failed New York media types who resent independent media figures like Portnoy and Rogan.

In this bit10 moments
  • Business Insider ran a hit piece on Dave Portnoy and planned one on Tim and another comic.
  • Tim was interviewed by an open mic comedian who quit to work for Business Insider.
  • The interviewer asked terrible questions while Tim sat in a parking lot smoking cigarettes.
  • Real journalists are people with white hair who research Kennedy assassination and die alone unfulfilled.
  • War correspondents run around getting shot at, win Pulitzers, get cancer, and die alone unfulfilled.
  • Stenographers write what the government wants them to say and live in big houses with published books.
  • Brian Williams lied constantly and nobody caught him because lying becomes intoxicating without consequences.
  • New York media types write for glorified blogs, eat ramen, and live on floors after getting useless degrees.
  • These struggling journalists love unfunny comedians and other talentless people because they lack talent themselves.
  • They create listicles about 25 comedians nobody will know, forming little groups that nobody cares about.
Mentioned here

Brian WilliamsBusiness InsiderAlex JonesDave PortnoyTom Brokaw

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