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

[As The Crow Flies]

This is the same Taylor Lorenz who has built a fairly lucrative career out of punching down on social media.

Pardon me if I'm not overly sympathetic.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

There was a local TV person and cameraperson doing some traffic piece and some loon started shouting Trump stuff and free speech while they were working. This was before dawn, at night.

The guy should feel the cold grip of the cuffs.

Around election time -- particularly in the days right after the election -- any Republican event included a bunch of guys with AK-47s calling our reporters by name and patting the guns. A few of them liked to recite the female reporters home addresses while waving the guns. Trump supporters thought that shirt was hilarious. For a few months we had concrete barricades around the newsroom. Our chief political reporter started to break down physically after that.

For about a month after the election our field crews had armed security and flak jackets.

Yeah. It's very different for women. I don't doubt she's sincere.

The threats of violence in response to straight news stories are bad enough, but the routine sexual threats to women in media are stomach turning.

Fearing for your life, being frightened all the time is one consequence of having a high profile on social media. Elizabeth Bruenig was tweeting about it the other day.

I remember when I first started in a television newsroom in 1975 the calls we'd get for the on-camera women were shocking.

I'd like to hear from some of our women here. Maybe @gingerbread and @OscarMadison and @Mngwa can weigh in.

Agree with all of this, and on a side note, it's always been astounding to me that the meanest, shirttiest emails and calls about a female anchor or reporter's appearance typically come from other women. We had one that complained about an anchor and said "It's sad that a woman that age feels she has to expose her shoulders like a cheap wart."

 

[SoloFlyer]

Um, yea. Not even going to try and wrap my head around how a tech/social media reporter has PTSD. I was thinking she may have covered war-torn areas or something. True PTSD vets must be shaking their heads as well. Kudos to her for making me waste my time to see who she was.

Trauma comes in multiple forms, not just from being in a war zone.

As a tech/social media reporter, she's likely dealt with a fair number of unhinged individuals who could have had a negative impact on her mental health.

She also experienced this: Journalist Taylor Lorenz punched while filming aftermath of fatal attack

 

[DanOregon]

It always struck me as odd that someone like Bill O'Reilly, who had no problem taking other people apart, seemed to have such thin skin when he was criticized. There are other examples as well of noted journos who were able to "dish it out" but had a hard time "taking it." Cyber-bullying has been around as long at the internet though - it's not a new deal. Perhaps if people didn't feel "doxxing" was such a bad thing, people would be more civilized on the web. I have zero problems with people being held accountable for what they write and post.

 

[Azrael]

Some Spiers on Greenwald action here. Thread:

 

[Pilot]

Um, yea. Not even going to try and wrap my head around how a tech/social media reporter has PTSD. I was thinking she may have covered war-torn areas or something. True PTSD vets must be shaking their heads as well. Kudos to her for making me waste my time to see who she was.

If you can't imagine how the internet could fork with someone's head, I say "Welcome friend, to your first day on the internet!"

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

It always struck me as odd that someone like Bill O'Reilly, who had no problem taking other people apart, seemed to have such thin skin when he was criticized. There are other examples as well of noted journos who were able to "dish it out" but had a hard time "taking it." Cyber-bullying has been around as long at the internet though - it's not a new deal. Perhaps if people didn't feel "doxxing" was such a bad thing, people would be more civilized on the web. I have zero problems with people being held accountable for what they write and post.

Bill's just one of the most famous faces of the "fork your feelings except mine which are very delicate and must be nurtured" crew currently trying to dismantle America.

 

[Sports Barf]

Is having PTSD something only people who work for major outlets have?

Do you know any journalists who have PTSD?

Isn't this the lady who just sat on Clubhouse all day waiting to pounce on anyone famous who said anything inappropriate? I mean what did she expect? Remember when your parents told you "TV rots your brain"? Social media fries it.

 

[Sports Barf]

Bill's just one of the most famous faces of the "fork your feelings except mine which are very delicate and must be nurtured" crew currently trying to dismantle America.

cough cough Clay Travis cough cough the entire Daily Wire staff

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I don't know Clay Travis personally, but the former Deadspin guys won't defend him, and in fact openly loathe him. And they defend all former Deadspinners, or at worst don't comment.

When Deadspin breaks its own omerta because of who you are, that should say something.

 

[TrooperBari]

 

[JimmyHoward33]

I don't know Clay Travis personally, but the former Deadspin guys won't defend him, and in fact openly loathe him. And they defend all former Deadspinners, or at worst don't comment.

When Deadspin breaks its own omerta because of who you are, that should say something.

are there are former deadspinners who are convservative? Is this about deapsin omerta or about left vs right like everything else?