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CNN Interview With Elle Reeve and Cable News Circuit
from Mistaken Deportation & Women In Space | The Tim Dillon Show #440 · #440
4 min
Tim describes doing press for his special, including a long-form CNN interview with journalist Elle Reeve about comedy and politics, and complains that CNN plans to edit down the full conversation.
- Cable news infrastructure is falling apart—interns can barely operate equipment, mics malfunction, cameras barely work.
- Tim recorded an hour-long interview with Elle Reeve at CNN and is demanding they release the full unedited version online instead of cutting it into fragments.
- People refuse to go on CNN because the network edits interviews rather than releasing them in full, which undermines the conversation.
- Most cable news segments are formulaic quick hits where hosts ask about cancel culture and woke outrage before moving on.
- Tim prefers substantive conversations like the one on All In about Nvidia chips being backdoored through fake Bhutan companies to China.
- Elle Reeve is known for interviewing incels in basements and Nazis, and that's who CNN assigned to interview Tim.
- Reeve claimed comedy is now right-wing and asked Tim to name big left-wing comedians; Tim countered with Bill Burr, John Mulaney, Chelsea Handler, and Trevor Noah.
- When Reeve suggested Tim is the new establishment, he responded that 22 intelligence agencies, the entire permanent federal government, legacy media, and the Ivy League are the actual establishment.
- Despite disagreeing with Reeve on several points, Tim believes the full interview should be released because both made valid arguments.
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