A journalist who has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post has come under fire on social media, after she criticised a recent nomination received by Chicken Shop Date’s Amelia Dimoldenberg.
For those not across podcasting lore, Las Culturistas — the culture podcast hosted by actor Matt Rogers and Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang — recently unveiled the nominations for its annual Las Culturistas Culture Awards.
The parody awards ceremony is set to air in the US next month, with over 100 hilarious categories including Best Word To Whisper, Hypochondriac Award For Illness We Think We Have This Time, and Flirtiest Thing You Could Ever Say, among others.
While fans of Las Culturistas already know the nominations aren’t intended to be serious (one category is the Award For Best Rumour We Are Making Up), the irony was seemingly lost on journalist Taylor Lorenz, who took umbrage with Dimoldenberg’s nomination in the category of Pop Crave Award For Excellence In Journalism.
For context, Pop Crave is an entertainment news social media page, so its appearance next to the words “Excellence In Journalism” is evidence enough that the entire thing is intended as a joke.
“I love [Dimoldenberg] and I’m extremely anti gatekeeping when it comes to journalism, but this is straight up not journalism”, Lorenz wrote on X, presumably in reference to Dimoldenberg’s viral chicken-eating interview series.
“I think the fact that it’s framed that way is part of why we’re witnessing the decline of actual journalism,” she added.
It’s worth reiterating that Lorenz has seemingly missed the point of the spoof awards show (another category is the Lindsay Lohan In Parent Trap Award For Twins Excellence) and scores of X users reminded her of that sentiment when responding to her tweet.
“The concept of being an ‘online culture journalist’ and not understanding the concept of the Las Culturistas culture awards,” one user responded, with another adding that Lorenz is not “grasping the obvious cheekiness in naming something ‘The Pop Crave Award for Excellence in Journalism’”.
“By this tweet you’d think she’s up for a Peabody and not the Pop Crave Award for Excellence in Journalism”, a third user quipped, while a fourth reminded Lorenz that the podcast hosts are “making fun of people who treat Pop Crave like a reputable source for news”.
While Yang and Rogers have yet to respond to the hullabaloo in the wake of the nominations, I half-expect, as a Las Culturistas fan, for them to add a new category called the Taylor Lorenz Award For Entirely Missing The Point.
And on second thought, I think anyone who can make the internet swoon while eating chicken nuggets with Andrew Garfield is deserving of any and all awards.
Heck, give Dimoldenberg an Oscar!
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