There’s a reason Taylor Lorenz is always trending, and it’s rarely for anything resembling journalism.
This week’s installment in the ongoing saga of independent journalist succeeds, establishment shill seethes features Lorenz in her usual role: furious that someone like Bari Weiss dares to exist—let alone thrive—outside the elite media sandbox.
Bari Weiss: Identifies untapped market void, raises funds for a start-up to fill it amid ridicule from her peers. Successfully fills void, sells company to established player for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Taylor Lorenz: this is right wing grift. pic.twitter.com/2LaIekP5iR
— Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) September 4, 2025
And make no mistake, Bari Weiss is thriving. After leaving the New York Times in a very public divorce over ideological rigidity and institutional cowardice, she built something the mainstream press can’t replicate: a platform that respects its readers’ intelligence. The Free Press now commands millions of eyeballs and, more importantly, trust—something legacy outlets tossed out with the bathwater years ago.
Meanwhile, Lorenz continues her self-parody tour, oscillating between performative grievance and digital witch-hunting. She’s allergic to criticism, impervious to correction, and terminally online in the most exhausting way imaginable. And heaven help anyone who dares to challenge her narrative. Alternate facts? Disputed assumptions? Logical rebuttals? That’s “harassment” in Lorenz World.
SCOOP @PuckNews: Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.https://t.co/jSVeF1b2nR
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) September 3, 2025
Her latest fit seems to be over the very idea that someone like Weiss—competent, independent, intellectually serious—can raise real money, hire real talent, and actually build something people want. In her mind, journalism is a club where truth only matters if it aligns with the correct hashtags and preferred ideologies. Everything else is dangerous disinformation… or worse, competition.
But the market has spoken. Bari Weiss created a media company people are willing to support—not with likes and retweets, but with actual dollars. And that, more than anything, drives her critics up the wall. You see, the Left used to own cultural credibility. Now, all they seem to own is a set of outrage templates and a crumbling trust score with the public.
I mean…competency applied to capital is right wing these days. https://t.co/pJAA9N07Kc
— JoshWah (@SirJoshWah) September 4, 2025
