It’s time to check in on Taylor Lorenz, who is going full Chicken Little over mainstream media layoffs
While critics of the media believe journalism lost its honor some time ago, those who still respect the profession are expressing concern that recent cutbacks may be just a taste of what’s to come.
“The entire journalism industry is basically in a freefall,” Lorenz begins her video, laying it on thick.
Taylor Lorenz is panicking about the total collapse of mainstream media and mass layoffs across the industry: pic.twitter.com/YqKDTqOgWI
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 25, 2024
“Today the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 employees. They wiped out their entire D.C. bureau in an election year, they laid off pretty much all of their sports teams, they killed their entire tech and business section, they laid off breaking news writers, social media editors, the list goes on,” she explained. “But what’s really dark is that this is just the latest in months and months and months of layoffs in the media industry. In fact, tens of thousands of journalists have been laid off in the past year.”
She goes on to point to several large media companies that have either closed down entirely or laid off significant portions of their staff.
“Major media companies like Buzzfeed News have completely shuttered their news operations. TIME Magazine also just laid off a ton of people and, oh, Sports Illustrated basically shut down last week. Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out,” Lorenz lamented. “And it’s not just digital media sites. Local news has been obliterated, the newspaper industry is cratering, radio is essentially dead aside from NPR which has been gutted. Meanwhile, hundreds of workers at Conde Nast, the parent company of pretty much every major magazine from GQ to Vogue to The New Yorker to Vanity Fair, are on strike because they’re also facing impending layoffs.
“Even mainstream national media outlets run by billionaires like The Washington Post, where I work, and The Atlantic, where I used to work, have done layoffs,” she noted. “If you’re a young journalist today, there’s no on-ramp to traditional journalism. Even if you do get a job, journalists’ salaries have been stagnant and even declined, and by the way we don’t make that much to begin with.”
She concluded her video by saying she doesn’t think anyone understands “how bad the world would be without journalists.”
X users immediately piled on Lorenz:
Taylor Lorenz leaves out the fact that mainstream media wouldn’t have collapsed if they didn’t go woke.
People would’ve continued to watch MSM if it wasn’t fake news — but it is.
The situation is simple and Lorenz is just out of her mind.
She’s still masking after all.
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) January 25, 2024
Journalism is dead. It’s been on life support for a long time, and now it’s in the scrap heap, but that’s what happens when you lie and work exclusively for one party providing cove and regurgitating propaganda lines its been fed. We are the media is more than a catchphrase.
— Jericho (@JerichoXVI) January 25, 2024
GROK HAS SPOKEN! pic.twitter.com/iulsQoyS99
— ZNO (@therealZNO) January 25, 2024
It’s funny they call themselves journalists. They spread propaganda and lies while providing it’s the gospel, then claim to victims when they are ignored.
— RareImagery (@RareImagery) January 25, 2024
She should post about it on Threads where her 17 followers can all share their faux outrage in their cute little echo chamber
— Meme’nOnLibs (@MemeNonLibs) January 25, 2024
All the way until the end these people will refuse to take just a moment to self-reflect and understand that their downfall is entirely their fault.
— Klay Thompson (@Thompsonklay) January 25, 2024
Good riddance! These propaganda mills deserve to crumble. It’s high time these fearmongers faced reality. The era of their manipulative, biased reporting is ending, and it’s a win for truth.
— Frank (@FrankChronicles) January 25, 2024
Journalist and political commentator Megyn Kelly addressed the media ‘bloodbath’ in a tweet noting Business Insider’s recent layoffs, claiming the outlets are being held accountable for ‘shoddy journalism.’
The media bloodbath continues as viewers/readers hold outlets accountable for shoddy journalism. The future is citizens connecting with individual journalists/hosts they trust. The days of the conglomerates deciding what’s “news” and controlling the narrative are over. https://t.co/ZoLBbmB5GP
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) January 25, 2024
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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