rant · moment 13 of 14
Pivot to School Shootings and Media Fatigue
from Tim Dillon vs The New York Post
2 min
Tim shifts abruptly to discussing school shootings, joking darkly about media desensitization and whether they should stop reporting shooters' names or the shootings at all.
- Tim declares himself against school shootings, calling them heinous crimes.
- The routine nature of shootings has made the constant pledges to do something feel hollow and repetitive.
- Tim proposes the provocative idea of simply not reporting school shootings at all.
- His reasoning: if we stopped talking about them, they might stop being this constant background horror people are numb to.
- Guest points out media outlets have already stopped naming the shooters in most cases, but the question of reporting itself remains.
- Tim jokes about the absurdity of his own suggestion, saying he'd pretend the events never happened while simultaneously recounting them.
- He expresses exhaustion with the cycle and predicts his co-host Ben will spend days correcting the record of what was said on this episode.