I still view NYT as excellent journalism, but with such questionable practices, that I am comfortable working around their pay wall instead of supporting them.

I think you need to calibrate your meaning of "elite"

one who is an adherent of elitism : one whose attitudes and beliefs are biased in favor of a socially elite class of people

I don't care much for her coverage but she's attacking a company whose CEO is worth a lot of money. Hard to say any of the people being criticized isn't part of the elite

[0] I dare anyone to point me to a flawless employee regardless of their employer or job title.

[1] Just google her name you'll find plenty of coverage of (predominately) white, old VC dudes unleashing their followers on her.

(BTW, I don’t know who Taylor Lorenz is, and don’t really care. I’m just surprised by this reasoning.)

The profound pathologies driving all of this were on full display on Saturday night as the result of a reckless and self-humiliating smear campaign by one of The New York Times’ star tech reporters, Taylor Lorenz. She falsely and very publicly accused Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen of having used the “slur” word “retarded” during a discussion about the Reddit/GameStop uprising.

Lorenz lied. Andreessen never used that word. And rather than apologize and retract it, she justified her mistake by claiming it was a “male voice” that sounded like his, then locked her Twitter account as though she — rather than the person she falsely maligned — was the victim.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale...