I didn't know that Taylor Lorenz had a podcast with Vox Media. She had a YouTube show as well, with the emphasis on used to. Semafor reported Sunday that Vox Media had dropped Lorenz from its lineup.
Vox Media is ending its deal to distribute Taylor Lorenz’s podcast and YouTube show.https://t.co/jD5OwO7AJl
— Semafor (@semafor) December 9, 2024
Was it something she said? Like celebrating the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week?
Semafor's Max Tani reports:
Vox Media is ending its deal to distribute Taylor Lorenz’s podcast and YouTube show. The company had a short-term partnership with the high-profile tech reporter that is set to expire at the beginning of the year, Semafor has learned.
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Vox’s decision not to renew the show was made before Lorenz’s comments this week, in which she appeared to justify the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO as an expression of public discontent. (She clarified in a Substack post that she was not defending the shooting, and was instead making a point about the US health care system.)
So the podcast was a short-term partnership that was due to self-destruct in a couple of weeks?
The New York Post reports:
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Vox Media is ending its deal to distribute former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz’s podcast and YouTube show after the journalist made a slew of explosive comments about the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a source close to the situation confirmed.
Semafor scribe Max Tani, who first reported the news, revealed late Sunday that the controversial tech columnist had a short-term partnership that is set to expire at the beginning of the year.
Lorenz took to social media on Monday ripping the report as “100% false,” claiming media reporters “lie” about her as she vowed to discuss the situation on her podcast this week.
"This is 100% false and I'm very much still working with Vox, and my show is not up for "renewal" because I actually own 100% of the show and control the distribution, not Vox. Media reporters continue to lie about me!" posted Lorenz on far-right white supremacist social media site X on Monday.
We're supposed to tune into her podcast to hear the real deal, but we won't be doing that.
I wish I had stock in microphone company Shure, since everybody — especially has-beens like Hillary Clinton — has a podcast and uses the mighty Shure SM-7B to make their voices heard.
There's no way I'm listening to Lorenz's podcast, but I am curious about the whole story. She had a partnership with Vox Media and says she's "very much still working with Vox," but she owns 100 percent of the show and its distribution.
"Celebrity journalists" like Lorenz are exactly what is wrong with places like her former employer, the Washington Post. She was supposedly a tech reporter, but all I ever saw from her was the doxxing of Libs of TikTok and reports on its "stochastic terrorism" campaigns.
It's weird why anyone would want to employ her.
— MIKΞ STAHL (@mikeastahl) December 9, 2024
Isn't it? I guess she's "high-profile" for her antics, like complaining about 99.99 percent of the population being "out raw dogging the air" around their elderly neighbors, like herself.
Buried lede: Taylor Lorenz was writing about the evils of subservient corporate media while still collecting a paycheck from Vox media. https://t.co/fPyBT4HMgH
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) December 9, 2024
As I reported, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos wanted to have a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump to convince him that the media is not actually the enemy of the people. He could convince me by rebuilding the Post from scratch and hiring real journalists. Of course, the ones on staff will wake up from their four-year nap in January and start reporting on things like Trump threatening to put Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad.
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