Taylor Lorenz says she has "severe PTSD" from being a journalist

As an aside, it looks like she made her Twitter account private in the last few minutes.

 

For sure.

But I've never had an error like that run. I've always done a last pass proofread to make sure some new mistake doesn't make it into print or go up online.

Better question here is why the mistake was inserted. Did the editor expect her to reach out to these folks? Did she say she had? Did she say she was going to?

So I'm curious about the 'miscommunication' she mentions.

Editors insert late errors all the time, but there's usually a reason it happens.

 

Good points

 

Deep Throat says hello from the pre-Internet parking garage.

 

I once had someone turn my kicker on a feature into a first-person graph. Without ever consulting me. That was the last time I wrote for that publication.

 

I make my living off the Internet, yet no one can read my Internet musings. That’s a really bad look. How about just deleting the app from your phone?

 

Curious as to when your modal big-time journalist lost interest in practicing big-time journalism. Because this shit ... the tweets and the re-tweets and the ratio(-ing), etc., etc., ad infinitum ... ain't journalism.

 

She's still tweeting and I can read her tweets because I was a follower before her tweets were protected.

 

It's 21st century brand management.

In a way, it's just the latest version of the high-profile print journalist who gets their own radio show or television program. We've been doing that for 100 years.

It's a lot easier to talk on TV or run your mouth on the radio than it is to report and write actual stories.

Same for posting 280 characters on social media.

 

I suppose ... but all this twitterfied drama -- the quoting and the unfollowing and the re-tweeting and the threading -- looks exhausting from where I sit.

 

This brings me to another point: When did journalism become writing about which YouTubers were mean to Johnny Depp?

 

Part of America's daily postmodern function that includes nouveau food photography and seductively duck-lipping the bathroom mirror.