Washington Post Digs an Even Deeper Hole in Response to Backlash Against Taylor Lorenz – Opinion

It’s been quite the day on social media as battle lines have once again been drawn between conservatives and other independent-minded thinkers versus elitist cancel culture liberals and their narrow-minded allies in the mainstream press in response to WaPo “technology reporter” Taylor Lorenz doxxing the wildly popular “Libs of Tik Tok” Twitter account.

As we previously reported, tensions erupted even before the article went live as supporters of LoTT pointed out how just a few weeks ago Lorenz herself appeared on MSNBC in tear-filled “interview” in which she stated she had “severe PTSD” and had contemplated suicide due to the online harassment she alleges she’s received as a result of doing her job – which involves the online harassment of social media users, some of who post anonymously out of fear of retribution from their opposition and/or their employers.

While Lorenz spent the day patting herself on the back and retweeting supposed “journalists” who are, unbelievably, defending her latest attempt at canceling someone for speech she doesn’t like, the Washington Post crafted a statement of support of Lorenz in response to the justifiable outrage that ensued over the hit piece, a piece that I should note quoted the liberal hacks at Media Matters and the ACLU as authoritative sources.

In it, they made a number of claims in defending Lorenz’s “reporting” that don’t pass the smell test. Before we get to that, let’s first take a look at what Washington Post managing editor Cameron Barr wrote:

“Taylor Lorenz is an accomplished and diligent journalist whose reporting methods comport entirely with the Washington Post’s professional standards. Chaya Rachik has made a huge impact on the public discourse through her handling of the Libs of TikTok account on Twitter and media interviews. She also revealed her identity on social networks. We did not publish or link to any details about her personal life.”

As Newsbusters media editor Bill D’Agostino astutely pointed out, however, Barr’s remarks – not surprisingly – contained multiple falsehoods:

How big were the falsehoods in the WaPo’s statement? It was huge:

Here’s a screengrab of what they originally included in the story:

In other words, the WaPo straight-up lied through their teeth and are just assuming their critics won’t notice.

Fortunately, LoTT is going to come out on top of this even better, stronger, and more powerful thanks to the gracious folks at The Babylon Bee, but that shouldn’t let the WaPo off the hook. People who don’t want to let them get away with what they did should feel free to fire off an email using the editor email addresses listed hereLet them know their thoughts (respectfully, but firmly).

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