Tay-Tay Lorenz Has Burned Her Last Legacy Media Bridge; Will Open a Substack

This gibbering lunatic Old will probably make more money there. But at least we can ignore her.

Tech culture columnist Taylor Lorenz is striking out on her own, exiting The Washington Post to launch her own publication on the Substack platform.

Lorenz is launching User Magazine, which will "cover technology from the user side. It's about who has power on the internet and how that power is being wielded," she says.

"I just wanted to get out of legacy media. I feel like it's just really, really difficult to do the kind of reporting that I want to do on the internet within these kind of older institutions as a primary job," Lorenz tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. "I like to have a really interactive relationship with my audience. I like to be very vocal online, obviously. And I just think all of that is really hard to do in the roles that are available at these legacy institutions."

She also wants to defame people without fact-checking or calling them for comment. She's gotten in trouble for that repeatedly.

"I think also legacy institutions generally have just really struggled to cover the internet in any meaningful way, I think that they often sort of shy away from the internet," she adds. "I write about the attention economy, and I write about the content creator industry, and I just want complete autonomy to write and do and say whatever I want, and engage a little bit more directly with my readers, with the public, when it comes to my work."

As a general rule, women like working in established institutions, and men are more likely to strike out on their own. This woman was let go, but I guess they're pretending this was her choice.

The Washington Post is so successful that they have to fire people every few months.

Mollie
@MZHemingway

While it's good that the Washington Post finally got rid of this cruel and deranged activist with only a tenuous grasp on reality, that they harbored her for years is to their great shame and discredit.

posted by Ace at 12:30 PM

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