...what ensued was psychotic: Lorenz ranting about unfairly she's treated, my sister doesn't understand how hard her life is, etc. But the point of the call was to get my sister to take the post down. Just kept badgering her until finally she deleted the post while on the call with her.

My sister was a struggling freelance journalist at the time. This was in no way a conversation between equals. Lorenz either knew this & was exploiting it, or was unaware of it. Both are problematic. It was deeply fucked up & when my sister told the NYT editors, they didn't seem to care...