Fighting for the story. The New York Times again became the story this week, as the already-fraught dialogue between the media and tech erupted in its most significant clash to date. This particular firestorm began when Taylor Lorenz, a reporter covering new media (aka Tik Tok, which I think is a legitimately valuable beat?, though we are apparently no longer allowed to speak of this), blasted out an Instagram story of Steph Korey’s to her 160 thousand twitter followers.

Balaji Srinivisan, who has been publicly criticizing the media at increasing volume since his own run-in with bad-faith journalists earlier this year, took issue with the attack and countered, mimicking Taylor’s language.