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

I don’t know, Jimmy. You’d have to ask one of them.

 

I'm firmly in the camp of "we are not the story." I feel the same way about TV people showing off their babies, taking viewers along on their medical journeys, acting like whatever is happening to them is the first time anyone has experienced what they are experiencing. I know one journo who probably has PTSD and I don't know if she's ever really talked about it is Lara Logan.

 

So you made up deadspin omerta but you dont know anything about it? Alright

 

qed

 

I might blame the Libs of TikTok bigot first.

 

Bigot? Isn't she mostly just aggregating and reposting TikTok videos with little or no commentary? How is just showing someone's lunacy in their own words bigoted?

 

So you aren’t familiar with her account or interviews then.

 

Would it really matter if I was?

 

They Know How Journalism Works! They’re Just Against It!

This new right fundamentally doesn’t want "newsgathering" to happen. They want a chaotic information stream of unverifiable bullshit and context collapse and propaganda. Their backers, the people behind the whole project, are philosophically and materially opposed to the idea that true things should be uncovered and verified and disseminated publicly about, well, them, and their projects. This may have started as a politically opportunistic war against particular outlets and stories, but it has quickly blossomed into a worldview. It’s an ideologically coherent opposition to the liberal precepts of verifiability and transparency, and the holders of those precepts are too invested in them to understand what their enemy is doing. The creep’s account, everyone in the press should understand, is the model for what they will be replaced with.

 

There's an interesting discussion to be had about Lorenz's story - and the Washington Post's willingness to retract specific information about the person who runs the Twitter account.

 

Super easy to find her real estate license online. Part of the public record. Lists her business address.

Is that "doxxing"?

Or is that reporting?