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