taylor lorenz recently went on msnbc to
talk about what it's like to be a female
journalist who is constantly targeted by
people who not only dislike her but
throw all sorts of threats toward her
including threats of violence her family
has had to deal with some of these
threats but unfortunately msnbc seemed
to have missed the mark in this segment
and it made matters worse now
without further ado why don't we watch
the segment featuring lorenz and then
we'll give you uh details about what
happened afterwards
they tracked violent and threatening
tweets directed at two female
journalists
after being targeted by two male media
figures
researchers found that attacks against
lorenz went up as much as 144 percent
after just one twitter thread for
another journalist they went up 65
nice job on that
story you soulless effing
then also you'll see there's these
there's many people that are tweeting um
you know here's these are taylor
lorenz's loved ones they have photos wow
these are all photos of your family
members yeah children yeah they'll
threaten children they'll threaten my
parents i've had to remove every single
social tie i had severe ptsd from this i
i contemplated suicide it got really bad
you feel like any little piece of
information
that gets out on you will be used by the
worst people on the internet to destroy
your life
and it's
so isolating
and terrifying
it's horrifying
so
unfortunately that segment led to more
backlash against uh lorenz and she
tweeted about it the whole experience
and how msnbc covered this topic saying
if yours your segment or story on online
harassment leads to even worse online
harassment for your subjects you messed
up royally and should learn how to cover
these things properly before ever
talking about them again
um and she also says media companies are
like we'd like to do a story on the
horrible bad faith smear campaign
against you but for fairness sake we
will need to include comment from the
people smearing you as a pedophile in
order to represent both sides and so the
people she's referring to there uh
include tucker carlson um glenn
greenwald fox news now carlson and fox
news did not provide comment to msnbc
but greenwald told the network quote as
a member of various marginalized groups
i don't want or accept some special
immunity shield against being criticized
and no journalist with any dignity or
worth should want that either
now let me also be clear that glenn
greenwald lives in a compound in brazil
with all sorts of private security uh i
would venture to say that people like
taylor lorenz do not have that type of
security so uh very specific death
threats uh can can be very scary when
you don't have a personal security
detail protecting you at all times uh
but jake what do you think about the
criticism that uh lorenz had for msnbc
and the way they handled that segment
yeah well so there's a couple things
here um
so first i just want to make sure that
everybody nobody falls for
glenn's obvious trick
so he says oh she just wants to be
shielded from criticism
no that's not what she's talking about i
interviewed her recently and we were
very clear on that issue
it's not about mean tweets we've all had
thousands and thousands of mean tweets
maybe millions uh against us and we're
deal with criticism nonstop it's not
about that at all did you hear what she
said they put up pictures of our family
members online
including kids
what do you think that's a reference to
that's like an old school mob style
reference to we know who your family is
and we can harm them it's terrorism
and so look i can relate to what she's
saying i'm i'm really worried about
putting pictures of my kids up on online
i haven't done that you know
for
they've been for the whole 11 to almost
12 years now there's like two or three
pictures that's it out of their all of
their lives why because there's
right-wing monsters out there
and so they constantly are threatening
physical violence there's squatting etc
there's so many things they do
that have to do with
actually harming people and glenn
greenwald the liar comes out because she
just wants to be shielded from criticism
because she's a woman that's not what
she said at all and you know it glenn
okay so
now to
the point uh about
uh msnbc's coverage look
they can't help themselves taylor and i
talked about that also in our interview
you should check that out on the
conversation
um they can't help going well okay this
is a smear campaign where they're gonna
call you a pedophile but i have to call
everything even so i'll do a story about
how you're
getting smeared but then i'll give them
the word saying 50 50 she might be
though no what no
based on what based on nothing
based on an actual lie
and yet
well no mainstream media 50 50. so why
do you think they go and call people
pedophiles because they know mainstream
media is going to call it 50 50
and then people are going to think oh i
guess there's a 50 chance that person is
a pedophile
you see mainstream media enables the
right-wing attacks by doing that
right now um
tucker carlson of course never misses an
opportunity to dogpile on taylor lorenz
and so he did a segment and he just
tried to make the argument that like
well i don't like the kind of reporting
that taylor lorenz does and she engages
in cancel culture so sorry
no empathy for me
but remember when tucker carlson was
calmly approached by someone at a fly
fishing store like fox news put out a
statement oh this is unacceptable
crimea river please you can disagree
with someone's reporting and also
condemn death threats toward her and her
family members but the right wing of
course can't get themselves to do that
honestly tucker did that segment uh
to make sure she got more threats
because they're using the gestapo their
gestapo that they know exists to
constantly threaten the left wing so
that they submit and that they don't
fight back
and so it's disgusting what they're
doing by the way i had a hater uh
approach me this weekend we'll talk
about that in the bonus episode that's
coming up next for the members tyt.com
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watching that as well so you can hear
from taylor herself thanks for watching
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