Earlier Saturday, Twitchy concluded its post on the corrections appended to Taylor Lorenz’s Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial story with, “Will there be a third version? Stay tuned!” We’re glad you stayed tuned because one of the Internet influencers Lorenz supposedly reached out to for comment (before the story was published) has convinced the Washington Post to write that third version of its correction.
The first version of the correction read, “The story has also been amended to note The Post’s attempts to reach Alyte Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy for comment. Previous versions omitted or inaccurately described these attempts.” The second version of the correction read, “The first published version of this story stated incorrectly that Internet influencers Alyte Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy had been contacted for comment before publication. In fact, only Mazeika was asked, via Instagram. After the story was published, The Post continued to seek comment from Mazeika via social media and queried ThatUmbrellaGuy for the first time.”
“In fact, only Mazeika was asked, via Instagram.” Is that so?
What?! @washingtonpost I will say this AGAIN.
I was not reached out to by @TaylorLorenz for comment until after my tweet below. She reached out to me by IG DM AFTER she did on Twitter. Both DMs were sent to me AFTER I called her out here.
Please stop lying and take the L. https://t.co/5mylhJTU9f pic.twitter.com/ZfS7BUCeDF
— Legal Bytes 🍽💙 (@legalbytesmedia) June 4, 2022
@washingtonpost: “Democracy dies in darkness.”
Also WaPo: “We’re going to keep the facts in the dark so we can continue our self-serving narrative that we’re more virtuous than independent content creators.”
— Legal Bytes 🍽💙 (@legalbytesmedia) June 4, 2022
We know that ex-New York Times reporter Lorenz is untouchable, but shouldn’t a “journalist” get fired for lying about reaching out to sources for comment?
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Wash Post is on it's 3rd correction and is still looks like they haven't fully corrected the timeline. https://t.co/VsbkZ889qN
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 4, 2022
So either 1. Lorenz sent this piece to editors and lied to them, only correcting after being called out or 2. the Wash Post editors knew about this and published it anyway. Both cases should be unacceptable and fireable offenses.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 4, 2022
What’s so glorious is there are receipts from official platform time stamps. Very rare.
— Reply Guy (@peanutweet) June 4, 2022
Get her out
— Steve Marvin (@SteveMa02630627) June 4, 2022
Their fourth correction should be firing @TaylorLorenz
— Beto Noire (@yankeexpatriate) June 4, 2022
Democracy died the day @TaylorLorenz was born
— Thor4Ever ⚡ (@thor_worthy69) June 4, 2022
Won’t someone fire her already? What does she have on Bezos?
— mentalext (@mentalext) June 4, 2022
Looks like they're starting a correction blog
— Harry Hertzl (@HarryHertzl) June 4, 2022
Taylor lied
Someone stealth edits the article
Someone edits article again but includes a new lie
The @washingtonpost issues statement containing lies.
Article still incorrect.
— Wesley (@DialedIn6) June 4, 2022
Dammit Stephen, she’s a plucky young reporter trying to make it in a career dominated by an old boys club. She’s gonna make mistakes along the way but we’re all cheering for her.
— JimmyJames7 (@JimmyJames720) June 4, 2022
What does it take to fire a reporter these days? How come she still has a job?
— Zeldamo (@CommentsbyGif) June 4, 2022
@TaylorLorenz why is your employer having to run cover for you? Fall on the sword and admit you’re a horrible reporter and person.
— Dodger Nation (@Chuck_U_Todd) June 4, 2022
The Post had to rush out a statement reminding us what an accomplished journalist she was after that piece that doxxed Libs of TikTok by linking to her real estate license — a link which the Post silently scrubbed because they “deemed it unnecessary.” Lorenz’s piece on the Johnny Depp trial was unnecessary, but they ran that anyway, and now they’re doing cleanup.
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Good thing we took a screenshot: The Washington Post just totally changed its correction of Taylor Lorenz's Depp-Heard article https://t.co/XORCiTzPbj
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 4, 2022
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