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Posted by: Stu Podaso

Taylor Lorenz claimed she left the Washington Post of her own accord.

No one believed her, obviously.

Now NPR relays leaks from their buddies at the Washington Post to do a hit-piece on her.

They're all super-left-wing, but they're also catty and vindictive. That's the only reason this was leaked and is being published -- they're personally pissed at her for lying.

The lunacy and gonzo leftwing bias, they're fine with. They just mad that she think she cute.

Oh, and of course: Her gonzo leftwing bias showed itself in attacking the Democrat "President" Joe Biden as a "war criminal," which they cannot abide. The Washington Post are all shitlibs -- they're Democrat operatives, full stop. Yes, they hate Israel and agree that helping Israel makes one a war criminal -- but they don't let you say that. Certainly not during an election year.

When tech columnist Taylor Lorenz left the Washington Post last week, she did so with a splash: An interview with The Hollywood Reporter about launching her own digital magazine, called User Mag.

"I like to have a really interactive relationship with my audience," she said. "I like to be very vocal online, obviously. And I just think all of that is really hard to do in the roles that are available at these legacy institutions."

Lorenz's professional fate at the paper was in doubt even prior to her announcement. Since August, its editors had grappled with the disclosure that Lorenz had labeled President Biden a "war criminal" in a selfie from a White House event in which Biden was visible in the background. She had circulated the picture to friends in a private social media post.

Lorenz, a frequent and often divisive presence online, never wrote for the paper again.

Three people at the Post with knowledge of events tell NPR that Lorenz lost the trust of the newsroom's leadership both by posting that selfie with the caption about Biden and then by willfully misleading editors in claiming that she had not done so.

Lorenz initially denied writing the caption or sharing it. After Jon Levine of The New York Post posted a screengrab of it online, Lorenz tweeted, "You people will fall for any dumbass edit someone makes." She told editors that someone else had added the caption to the photo.

After NPR verified the post was authentic, Lorenz changed her account of what happened, acknowledging to editors she had shared the image.

The Post kicked off a formal review, saying, "Our executive editor and senior editors take alleged violations of our standards seriously." Lorenz maintained she shared the image as a joke echoing an online meme, not as a commentary on Biden.

The paper has not announced the findings of its review. "We are grateful for the work Taylor has produced at The Washington Post," a corporate spokesperson said in a statement. "She has resigned to pursue a career in independent journalism, and we wish her the best." The paper would not comment further.

"I have no idea about their review," Lorenz writes in a text to NPR. "All I know is that they've been incredibly cool to me and very great, and I'm on good terms with them.

"I want out of legacy media as a whole, for so many reasons," Lorenz writes to NPR. "And that's not a knock on legacy media, I love and support all of my friends in that system, but it's not the right environment for me to do the work that I want to do."

When I discussed her firing, I mentioned that it seemed unlikely she wanted to strike out on her own, and that she's the type who wants to be associated with an establishment outfit to lend her credibility and clout. NPR says that's accurate:

Even so, according to counterparts and colleagues who have known her at various points in her career, Lorenz has until now placed great stock in her affiliation with major mainstream news outlets. She reported for The Atlantic magazine and The New York Times before joining the Post. Yet she has consistently tangled online with critics in a way that tested the social media policies of those outlets. Both newspapers have struggled with policies seeking to regulate their journalists' social media postings on contentious issues.
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At the Post, Lorenz was designated a columnist, giving her more leeway for personal expression in print and on her own accounts than a reporter would have. Even so, her work for the newspaper focused on reported articles rather than opinion pieces.

Ha. Hah. Hah.

Obviously if this gross internet stalker had attended a Trump event and labeled him a "war criminal," she'd still be working for the Post.