Taylor Lorenz is a Washington Post journolist^[1]The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their … Continue reading about whom we’ve reported several times. Miss Lorenz first came to my attention when she doxed Chaya Raichik, a Brooklyn-based real estate salesperson who was the creator of the Twitter site Libs of TikTok. My good friend Amanda Marcotte of Salon loved that LoTT was doxed, doubtlessly hoping that Chaya Raichik, a Brooklyn-based real estate salesperson and LoTT creator would lose her job, and posted a hope that Mr Musk’s buyout of Twitter results in the whole thing being killed.

Then, a month later, we noted that Miss Lorenz, who found it so necessary to expose Miss Raichik, was simply appalled that the political resistance to President Biden’s attempt to create a Ministry of Truth Disinformation Governance Board within the Department of Fatherland Homeland Security forced the proposal to be ended. The proposed Minister of Truth board administrator, Nina Jankowicz, worked in the press room at Volodymyr Zelensky’s campaign headquarters, which calls into question just how impartial she could have been in fighting ‘disinformation’ concerning the Russo-Ukrainian War.

She later complained about someone else being doxed, a journalism student who had written a critical article about her subject:

Lukas Pakter, a senior and former fraternity president, has amassed more than 129,000 followers on TikTok by posting about his workouts, advice on how to balance partying and school, and how to handle relationships. His videos are candid and self-effacing. He takes questions primarily from young men about things like dating and professional networking.

In August, (Olivia) Krupp contacted Pakter and said she was interested in profiling him for the student paper. Pakter obliged, and granted her an interview.

Krupp’s profile of him, published in the online version of the Daily Wildcat under the Opinion section, critiqued Pakter and his fans, comparing him to Andrew Tate, an influencer whose misogynistic posts have gotten him banned from YouTube and TikTok. She called Pakter’s TikTok commentary “troublesome” and questioned whether he was a good role model for his thousands of followers.

Krupp found out her story had gone live when she began receiving text messages. Her phone was suddenly barraged from numbers she’d never seen before. “I hope when our society wakes again you are lined up and shot,” read one text viewed by The Post. Dozens of others viewed by The Post berated her appearance, threatened her, and called her misogynistic slurs.

If you read Miss Lorenz entire article, you’ll see what she really wants: freedom for journalists and aspiring journalists to be able to write whatever they wish, yet be protected from complaints about any abuse they choose to publish. You’ll note that Miss Lorenz mentioned that Miss Krupp’s opinion article “critiqued” Mr Pakter and his fans. There are no two ways about it: Miss Lorenz, herself using our First Amendment’s freedom of the press in her job, was appalled that Miss Krupp was being subjected to criticism for what she wrote.

Miss Lorenz was not very concerned about other people’s privacy, or potential harm to them, when she doxed Miss Raichik, but she certainly is concerned about potential risks to herself! Very, very concerned about the new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control over COVID-19, which basically says that there’s no need for serious restrictions, Miss Lorenz tweeted:

It’s just wild how fast 2020’s “we’re all in this together” flipped to “I’m personally safe now, so vulnerable ppl’s deaths should be normalized.” This view is completely standard now across the political spectrum and championed by liberals and large media institutions

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) August 11, 2022

What, you’ve noticed that I didn’t screen capture her tweet? That’s because, you’ve guessed it, I’ve been blocked by her. 🙂

Miss Lorenz is, herself, immunocompromised. She wrote:

Disabled/medically vulnerable ppl shouldn’t have to risk their lives to participate in society, nor are most even given that choice. Disabled people also have to work, go to school, grocery shop, go to the doctor’s office. We are human beings in the world just like everyone else. As someone working in media who’s immunocompromised and medically vulnerable I really wish we as an industry hired more disabled writers and did more to center vulnerable people in our coverage, esp on COVID. What’s happening right now is so horrific on such a massive scale

And thus it is with the tweet screen captured above: she wants “robust layered covid protections that keep everyone safe,” which, in her mind, means more vaccine and mask mandates. I do find it amusing that she has protected her tweets, so that only approved followers could read them, and blocked those who had been approved followers in the past, such as Robert Stacy McCain, and me, from seeing them. It seems that Miss Lorenz is quite able to dish it out, but far, far, far too thin skinned to take it herself. But it also means that she’s using Twitter only to preach to the choir, because she’s blocking anyone who expresses disagreement.

Far too many reporters seem to believe that the specific guarantee of freedom of the press in the First Amendment constitutes some sort of guarantee that what they write cannot be challenged. And, for a long time, that was mostly true, as freedom of the press was restricted to those who own one. Today, the internet has killed that, as anyone who wishes can start a blog, whether as poorly followed as The First Street Journal or as widely read as Instapundit. The left are now as open to criticism as the right, and journolists like Taylor Lorenz just don’t like it.