The shadowy war on the press: How the rich silence journalists
This is the only article you *need* to read today.
“Lawrence, in her recent piece for Bloomberg, ‘The Journalist and the Troll,’ describes how overwhelming it was to type her name into Google and confront a page full of articles and images that called her incompetent and racist, derided her weight and appearance, and were laced, as she puts it, with ‘creepy sexual imagery.’ TheBlot has since struck back by publishing fresh assaults against her—assaults that Wey shares on LinkedIn and Twitter. Despite being false and outrageous, the posts have had serious consequences for Lawrence. In her piece for Bloomberg, she describes how she and her husband were turned down for homeowners insurance because Lawrence was ‘too high-profile.’ She also worries what future sources will think when they see the posts, especially if they’re native Chinese: ‘How many of them would return my calls or emails?'”
When Gawker Media was sentenced to pay Hulk Hogan $140 million in damages for publishing his sex tape, it was seen as a victory over snarky New York media. Now, with the revelation that the lawsuit was secretly…
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