Interview · moment 8 of 27
Fake Journalists: Taylor Lorenz, Michael Tracey, and the SNL Writers Room
from #239 - Anna Khachiyan | The Tim Dillon Show · #239
3 min
Guest
Anna trashes the state of journalism, calling out Taylor Lorenz for waiting to catch people saying slurs in Clubhouse, praising Michael Tracey/Greenwald/Taibbi as real journalists, and comparing the rest to SNL staff writers.
- Tim on the impeachment trial as cynical make-work for politicians avoiding accountability.
- Media compared to disgruntled adolescents looking for content now that Trump is gone.
- There are only about seven actual journalists; everyone else is a culture commentator doing Twitter commentary.
- Taylor Lorenz sits in Clubhouse rooms waiting for CEOs to say something misogynistic so she can write about it.
- A real journalist moves to Dallas and writes about the Kennedy assassination for five years without finishing, then kills themselves.
- Michael Tracey is the only person now who actually occupies the role of real journalist, despite being the most hated guy on the internet.
- Most contemporary journalists are professional aggregators and stenographers for liberal consensus.
- SNL writers and major journalists are interchangeable; they could easily swap jobs and write the same mediocre political sketches.
Taylor LorenzGlenn GreenwaldSaturday Night LiveMichael Tracy