Taylor Lorenz, The Washington Post’s internet reporter and an object lesson in why journalists should avoid becoming the news, had some harsh words for MSNBC on Sunday.
“If your segment or story on ‘online harassment’ leads to even worse online harassment for your subjects, you f–ked up royally and should learn how to cover these things properly before ever talking about them again,” Lorenz wrote in a tweet.
“I could teach an entire class on this stuff, but the simple fact is that very few people in power in newsrooms actually understand how the modern internet and online landscape works, and so they continually give ammo to bad actors,” she added.
Lorenz is referring to an MSNBC segment in which she appeared that aired on Friday. The “Meet the Press” segment addressed the issue of the online harassment of women, and Lorenz spoke at length about the abuse and threats she has received online.
“They’ll threaten children, they’ll threaten my parents,” Lorenz explained in the segment. “I’ve had to remove every single social tie. I have severe PTSD from this. I contemplated suicide. It got really bad. You feel like any little piece of information that gets out on you will be used by the worst people on the internet to destroy your life and it’s so isolating. It’s horrifying.”
She then appeared to have something of an emotional meltdown.
The problem, however, is that Lorenz is far from the innocent, retiring flower she portrays herself to be. While at The New York Times, most of her “journalistic” endeavors were devoted to the pressing need to doxx high school students, innocuous YouTube and other internet personalities over youthful indiscretions and social media missteps.
And it was for this reason that some people, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson and independent journalist Glenn Greenwald, were less than impressed by Lorenz’s complaints on the MSNBC segment.
“Go look up what she’s done to a whole bunch of different people, including really young people in the New York Times and the Washington Post,” Carlson said on his show last week, “and ask yourself if it’s fair because she identifies as a woman for her to claim victim status.”
He added: “Taylor Lorenz has spent the last several years at the New York Times and now the Washington Post harassing people with the wrong political views online, including children. So of course, passive aggression being the main mode that our ruling class operates in, she has decided she’s the victim and the people who complain about what she does to them are actually the perpetrators.”
Greenwald was also less than sympathetic, marveling at Lorenz’s invincible hypocrisy in the face of what she herself has done to others, including the most egregious and unnecessary online harassment.
Liberal journalists think it's a joke when *powerless people* are attacked for their views: workers fired for an OK sign or an ill-advised tweet, students saying their speech is chilled.
They only have empathy for the power and influential: Taylor Lorenz. She must be shielded.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 1, 2022
In 2020, while at The New York Times, Lorenz was the co-author of an article about high school tattletales snitching on their fellow students to “expose racism” and even “cultural appropriation.” So she is, to say the least, no stranger to dishing out the kind of abuse that she apparently can’t take when directed at her.
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Let me get this straight. When the Woke harass someone it’s journalism. When they are harassed it’s a crime. Got it.
The double standards and hypocrisy of the left is never ending.
Lorenz is in desperate need of the backhand.
BPR Your new comment system sucks. So there is no way to respond to someone else’s comment? How is this having a conversation? I just logged in to leave a comment on another article and now I have to log in again to comment here? That is really user friendly. I have been on here for several years and like your writers and your old comment system, but this new system is maddening and may not keep me here much longer.
Hey, Lorenz; don’t contemplate it. DO IT!
Poor little Earth Mother. She even looks like a sad wokster. Anybody want to donate a safe space with a couple of Black Widows for ‘comfort’
It never fails to amaze me how thin skinned the elitists are. They enjoy a big paycheck and they think this paycheck is a testimonial to their intelligence. They look down on common people, not realizing that the commoner is more adept at taking care of himself than the elitists are. These elitists want people to agree with them to justify their position. Yet, when someone questions that position that someone is attacked by accusations of Racism, Sexism, and so many different kinds of phobia, some of which you never knew existed. I agree with Tucker and Greenwald. If you can dish it out, be prepared to take it in return.
If you live in glass houses
Don’t throw no stones
And if you can’t take a punch
Don’t throw no low blows
—Peter Tosh–‘
My opinion is that Taylor Lorenz is a snowflake twit…apologies to snowflake twits!
Again the playbook reads, “Accuse others of doing what you are ACTUALLY doing!”
D party is the party of narcissist.
Don’t dish it out if you cannot take it yourself
There’s an old saying, what goes around, comes around. This is one thing you can bank on in your life.
Wha wha wha, hey lady, how do you think the Trump family felt about how you people treated him on the Internet?? You all cried until The Twits at Twitter banned him for life!! oh! but it’s ok for a man to pose as a woman and beat the hell out of women in a swimming pool??? You people are fkd up for sure! Go butcher some more innocent babies and hold the truth on important things from the public.
What’s good for the goose…
I hope, some day soon…
The fade of the “blame game & everyday negativity”
Simply goes away, as lesson learn…
Hey Lorentz, have you ever heard the saying, “What goes around comes around”? Or how about “If you can’t take it, don’t dish it out”?
Lorenz…the epitome of leftist media and politicians. They are so easily offended by the very thing they themselves do and say. Grow up and stop whining about things you are responsible for yourself because society is not a better place because of you and your kind.
Lorenz, you made your bed, so now lay on it!
The damage the Alphabet people have had on society is immeasurable. Ten years ago, people wouldn’t believe the s*** that’s going on today. Woke fragility is in partnership with Alphabet people in what Rush Limbaugh termed ‘Culture rot’ To equate today’s linguini spine yelpers, to the hardships our ancestry endured to avail the privileges we have today is frightening.
Wow Midway. I don’t think anyone could articulate this story better than that. Great job.