Yahoo News has reposted a very, very long piece from Town & Country called, “Meet Today’s Rising Creative Vanguard.” The piece features a number of up-and-coming creatives and sings the praises of the younger generation of talent. Jason Farago writes:
Our president, the oldest ever, turns 80 next month (and Joe Biden is younger than both House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell); the year’s top-grossing film stars a 60-year-old Tom Cruise in a role he first played at 23; the song of the summer was by the now 64-year-old Kate Bush, made famous on a Netflix series that regurgitates ’80s pop culture for streaming attention spans.
Toward the end of the piece Farago gives up on the brief biographies and just lists a bunch of people in bullet points, and among them was the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz, who was called “the Bob Woodward of the TikTok generation.”
It’s funny because although Lorenz covers TikTok as a “tech and culture” reporter, she’s very sensitive about her age. She’s written that there’s no “right” age to be a female journalist: “These men constantly demean women in their 20s as being too young to take seriously, then the minute a female journalist turns 30 she’s an old hag that’s too old to write about technology or culture,” she tweeted earlier this month.
Lorenz seems to have embraced the label, though, copying and pasting it into her Instagram account:
Taylor Lorenz *actually posted* this on instagram, calling herself the “Bob Woodward of the TikTok generation.”
Reminder that most TikTok users are teenage girls and Lorenz is at least in her late 30s
Reminder that TikTok is Communist spyware that tracks your every keystroke pic.twitter.com/Rwjztgqk3N
— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) September 29, 2022
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"See, you put the Nyquil on the chicken like this." pic.twitter.com/vdqqjP4UX7
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 29, 2022
She’s as old as Woodward, right?
— Jeremy Hughes (@jeremybhughes) September 29, 2022
She's *at least* 45.
— Marie Arf 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇨🇦 (@schwingcat) September 29, 2022
https://twitter.com/markhlyon/status/1575564104986955778
— mitrebox (@mitrebox) September 29, 2022
She was 42 last time I checked. She was 41 when she made the Forbes "40 under 40" list. I wonder why they thought she was under 40?
— » J H « (@FuarFearg) September 29, 2022
Late 30's is generous
— Disciple of Christ (@Disciple_59) September 29, 2022
— Grubby (@Grubby____) September 29, 2022
Doxxing was a lot tougher in her early career, what with waiting on the stagecoach to bring the mail
— Tony Schroeder (@schroedertony) September 29, 2022
She remembers Nixon resigning because she watched it *as it happened*
— Tony Schroeder (@schroedertony) September 29, 2022
Egomaniacal claims are a great window into the soul and sobriety of a person.
— Jim Stinson (@jimstinson) September 29, 2022
— Maddie Adams (@MaddieAdams75) September 29, 2022
Also a reminder… Woodward has been looking for RE-RELEVANCE since Watergate. Woodward, like Taylor, should've quit while they were ahead. Oops… scratch that… She was never ahead.
— Michael Nelson (@MintasMichael) September 29, 2022
We’re amazed she found that and even more amazed that she posted it on her Instagram account, which all teen girls have.
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Related:
Taylor Lorenz agrees that there’s no ‘right age’ to be a female journalist; You’re either too young or an old hag https://t.co/bNR8jsJtUt
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 9, 2022
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