Taylor Lorenz is a New York Times employee whose job is to bully and smear people, often private citizens, and call it journalism. Naturally, Lorenz’s latest schtick is to cry victimhood.
After using International Women’s Day to claim that “online harassment” has “destroyed” her life, she once again whined that Tucker Carlson pointed out that she’s one of many self-absorbed elites trying to paint herself as a victim.
Among Lorenz’s complaints of Carlson’s monologue: that he said her name and showed a picture of her.
It’s the same reason Tucker repeats my name over and over on his show. They’re drilling it into their followers heads. https://t.co/eYK8kOaWNM
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) March 10, 2021
I don’t have my face on here for a reason, and yet https://t.co/1jS16x9PSd
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) March 10, 2021
This is quite a claim by a New York Times reporter: Although she appears on cable news regularly and brags about her reporting in profiles published by her own employer, she claims, like former President Donald Trump, that others may not use her likeness.
Considering the actual victims of Lorenz’s tattletale journalism, her schtick requires a hell of a lot of chutzpah.
Lorenz started her journalism career by outing anonymous social media stars the Oshry sisters — then-famous for the wildly popular Instagram account Girl With No Job. The sisters, Lorenz reported, are daughters of Pamela Gellar, the controversial far-right commentator infamous for her critiques of Islam. Now, the Oshry sisters promulgated zero political positions and reflected none of their mother’s positions, but it didn’t matter. Lorenz’s gambit worked, and the most famous of the sisters was dropped by her talent agency while their show was canceled.
When Lorenz isn’t blogging about children on the Chinese Communist Party-controlled app TikTok, she’s making public figures out of teenagers, trying to ruin their peers’ lives by publicly branding them as racist, and trying to turn Kellyanne Conway’s underage daughter into a left-wing celebrity to instigate a family feud. Social media manager Ariadna Jacob claims a hit piece by Lorenz cost her tens of millions of dollars in lost business.
Lorenz got away with tattletale journalism for years, but finally, she took it too far.
She is officially a “tech” reporter. If you follow CNN or the New York Times, you know that means she considers it her job to censor people or get them canceled for bad opinions. So, of course, she went after Clubhouse, the social media app that allows people to host conference-style conversations that go unrecorded. This bugs a censor like Lorenz.
She spent much of last year attempting to police the app, keeping an entire blog of supposedly racist and sexist remarks and people on it. After repeatedly harassing Marc Andreesen, a key Clubhouse investor, she was blocked from the app. Using a pseudonymous account, in violation of her employer’s editorial standards, Lorenz sneaked back into the app in order to listen to Andreesen and then smear him, claiming he used a slur that he never used.
Lorenz gambled that she could take down Clubhouse, the lone mainstream social media platform that wants to preserve open discourse, and she failed. She has been outed as a narc, a smear artist, and a sneak. That people point out she is a hack isn’t harassment, and a cable media show criticizing a cable media regular for claiming that she’s the real victim here isn’t inappropriate.
None of this is to say that actual harassment and threats are acceptable, but they come with the job of being a woman on the internet. Even men with any sort of public-facing position get death threats. Hell, I am significantly less well known than Lorenz, and I have actual neo-Nazis at the Daily Stormer debating my race and whether I’ve had plastic surgery while doxxing my parents.
The problem isn’t that Lorenz is bothered by negative attention and harassment. It’s that she’s a hypocrite who sics mobs on her targets and lies about them but then is upset that a cable news host would criticize her work.
