Taylor Lorenz: Take It From Me, a Real Journalist (TM) -- The New York Times Has a Strict Policy Of Only Publishing Right Wing Opinions

I-- wait, what?

Hysteric, hypochondriac, doxxer, madwoman and suspected old Taylor Lorenz is full of batty insane hot takes of such exotic fragility as can only survive and thrive inside the fantastical hothouses of toxic leftwing Always Online Culture.

But this may be her craziest one yet: The New York Time will only permit right-wing opinions.

David Strom has a couple of fun facts there about America's Oldest Teenager, including this: She quit Twitter loudly (of course) and decamped to the Twtter competitor "Threads" at FaceBook (I think?), but then began complaining she was being... CENSORED there!

The woman who demanded so much censorship at Twitter that they gave her her own special power to censor people is complaining she's being censored on Threads! Wonderful!

Not the Bee offers some of the New York Times' very right wingiest recent opinions.

Over the summer -- the summer of 2023 -- this able-bodied bedridden basketcase screeched about a terrifying incident at an airport, during which TSA agents asked fliers to briefly move their masks to one side so that they could be, you know, identified and have their faces checked against their ID photos.

Not on Tay-Tay's watch!

What happened: Taylor Lorenz, the Washington Post reporter best known for attending a teenager's birthday party and being cited in Chinese propaganda broadcasts, survived a "dangerous" encounter at John F. Kennedy International Airport over the weekend.

* The 38-year-old [CITATION NEEDED] teen journalist complained that TSA agents were "forcing all passengers to remove their masks before they even step up to the security desk" to have their boarding passes checked. "I can't believe they're doing stuff like this in 2023 [spiral eyes emoji]," Lorenz wrote on Twitter, the immigrant-owned social networking website.

* Lorenz described the situation--unmasked passengers at an airport in 2023--as "so dangerous" and "so insane." She accused a TSA agent of behaving with "abject cruelty" for telling "a woman" that she shouldn't be flying if she was "so scared" about removing her mask for several seconds at a security checkpoint.

* Nevertheless, she managed to survive. "I tried to just hold my breath but I had to breathe a couple times [spiral eyes emoji]," Lorenz confessed.

Why it matters: For many liberals, the combination of Donald Trump's election and the COVID-19 pandemic had a catastrophically damaging impact on their ability to function in society.

* Lorenz and others continue to insist in 2023 that outdoor dining is a life-threatening activity.

Note, however, that when she attends parties with the celebrities (or, at least, "celebrities" of the lowest "Basic Blogger" rungs), she is more than willing to discard the mask without the need of holding her breath in terror.

Nicholas Clairmont wrote a review of her book last month at Tablet, and really, Tablet's level of writing and editing is absolutely top notch. I think I should praise the editing because when every single piece has strong writing, that's editors insisting on writers honing their pieces to their best form.

A few observations from this piece:

Why does Taylor Lorenz live almost entirely online, and only occassionaly venture outside, still wearing a mask even in 2023, like a Bubble Boy? Well, apparently she thinks it's just not worth living life outside the online bubble:

Lorenz's writing makes it clear that, even as she approaches the subject in the style of a pure reporter, she thinks it is sad when her subjects retreat from online life.

That say a lot.

So does this:

By the end of the book, Lorenz says that "this book is a personal history in many ways" and, much more strangely, that Tumblr "saved my life."

He notes that Lorenz is a never-ending Drama Cyclone who, when she has no actual news to report -- which is almost always -- will manufacture news by creating drama around herself, usually in the form of a cancellation attempt, false accusation, lie, or an incandescantly bad take.

Like the one she just dropped today. It's so obvious false it seems contrived just to get the name "Taylor Lorenz" into the news.

It seems she's a believer in the idea that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

Clairmont:

Lorenz, a close student of strategies for viral fame and success at gaining online attention, might categorize an honest assessment of her online and journalistic persona as a "bad-faith" (or cynical) strategy. She is quite adept at situating herself at the center of news cycles in ways that virtually no other journalist can do.

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This was of a piece with an earlier episode in the Lorenzian outrage cycle that came from her accusation that someone used the word "retard" on the then-popular app Clubhouse, later amended because the not particularly dire accusation also turned out to be false. Her larger concern, according to The New York Times, was that, as an audio-only app that did not leave easily AI-censorable text behind, people on Clubhouse were having "unfettered conversations."

I remember that. She lobbed a false accusation, trying to get the guy cancelled for saying "retard." He'd never said it. She changed her story and said it was the fault of the site for not supplying a transcript, and that the real problem was that people were having "unfettered conversations" which minders and censors like her were unable to adequately censor in real time.

I'm sure everyone remembers her crying about the being "cyberbullied" and "doxxed" and then, within, I believe, the very same week, rushing out to not only publish LibsofTiKTok's real name, but a snapshot of a business document upon which could be seen her working address as well.

Plus, of course, she pounded on the door of LibsofTikTok's family members.

But oh! The cyberbullying that women like Taylor Lorenz are subjected to by online h8rz!

It was also of a piece with her participation in The New York Times staff's "This puts Black @nytimes staff in danger" Twitter campaign to manipulate workplace safety law to censor an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton.

Tired of this walking pseudo-event yet? Welcome to Taylorworld, where there's always something outrageous and dramatic going on.

But there's also nothing going on since she "wrote this book almost entirely from bed" and is a famously extremist Branch Covidian who, even now, believes that the story of the pandemic is that we did not commit with enough vigor or for enough time to strategies like masking, stay-at-home orders, and social pressure not to commune in person rather than on Zoom and social media. Her remedy for how society can stop failing to conform to such policy preferences is through a cleverly rebranded form of censorship called "anti-disinformation," which is a partnership between government intelligence agencies and private internet technology firms to determine who can say what.

Indeed, Taylor Lorenz's importance in the Government Censorship Complex is often overlooked, because she seems like such a ridiculous, absurd, impossible-to-take seriously idiot madwoman.

And yet she is always leading every Cancel Pig bandwagon, stirring every censorship campaign, leading every smear effort.

And of course: She did have that one-of-a-kind special Taylor-Only Censor Button at Twitter.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:36 PM

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