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SA was being interviewed for an article -- was this detail not discussed beforehand? Did the NYT violate an informal agreement not to use his real name? Could

SA was being interviewed for an article -- was this detail not discussed beforehand? Did the NYT violate an informal agreement not to use his real name? Could SA have reasonably expected that a reporter would not trivially find his real name as part of routine research, and thus include it as background? SA's wishes should be respected by NYT -- the piece should be abandoned -- but his judgement on entering into an interview in the first place is questionable.

hirundo 6y ago
The interview started with his request that they not disclose his full name. When the reporter declined, contacted his editor and declined again, the interview went no further. They told him they would run the story and disclose his name either way.
- jordanpg 6y ago
  That narrative is not expressed in the post here: https://slatestarcodex.com/ https://slatestarcodex.com/ Where does your account come from? If I had to infer what happened from SA's post, it is that he agreed to an interview, did the interview, learned that they intended to use his name, and then raised these objections.
  - hirundo 6y ago
    > But when Metz reached out, Alexander says, he wanted to discuss not these controversies, but the community SSC had built, in a largely positive way. Issues, however, emerged almost immediately. > "He never got around to asking me questions because I started with asking if the article would include my real name and we didn't get past our argument on that subject," Alexander told the Free Beacon by email. "I explained almost word for word the same things I explained on my recent post. He said he would talk to his editor, then came back saying that his editor said the article couldn't be published without my real name. He said he was really sorry about this and I believe him." https://freebeacon.com/media/well-known-blogger-shuts-down-site-for-fear-of-nyt-doxxing/ https://freebeacon.com/media/well-known-blogger-shuts-down-s...

hirundo 6y ago

The interview started with his request that they not disclose his full name. When the reporter declined, contacted his editor and declined again, the interview went no further. They told him they would run the story and disclose his name either way.

jordanpg 6y ago
That narrative is not expressed in the post here: https://slatestarcodex.com/ https://slatestarcodex.com/ Where does your account come from? If I had to infer what happened from SA's post, it is that he agreed to an interview, did the interview, learned that they intended to use his name, and then raised these objections.
- hirundo 6y ago
  > But when Metz reached out, Alexander says, he wanted to discuss not these controversies, but the community SSC had built, in a largely positive way. Issues, however, emerged almost immediately. > "He never got around to asking me questions because I started with asking if the article would include my real name and we didn't get past our argument on that subject," Alexander told the Free Beacon by email. "I explained almost word for word the same things I explained on my recent post. He said he would talk to his editor, then came back saying that his editor said the article couldn't be published without my real name. He said he was really sorry about this and I believe him." https://freebeacon.com/media/well-known-blogger-shuts-down-site-for-fear-of-nyt-doxxing/ https://freebeacon.com/media/well-known-blogger-shuts-down-s...