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I'd like to see a reference for the claim that very often, the subject in a news story will be granted anonymity (besides victims of sex crimes) The Virgil stu
by ahepp 6y ago
I'd like to see a reference for the claim that very often, the subject in a news story will be granted anonymity (besides victims of sex crimes)
The Virgil stuff is a moot point. There are several differences (difficulty of finding the name, consistent usage rather than anonymizing), but I don't see how it would change anything if they slipped up by letting him use a pseudonym.
Unless you really do have evidence that they very often allow subjects anonymity?
- handmodel 6y agoIMO from that example it seems hypocritical but I don't think that means they would have been wrong to use the real name of Virgil Texas. It would have been a totally acceptable and informative thing for a newspaper of record to print his real name - just as I think it is totally acceptable and informative to publish the real name of SSC. This is a newspaper. Providing information to the public. Their obligation is to their readers to provide valuable reported information.
- jessaustin 6y agoUnless you really do have evidence that they very often allow subjects anonymity? Like any American news firm, they regularly "allow" anonymity in "national security" pieces. Some will argue that this anonymity is for "sources" rather than "subjects", but invariably those groups are the same. Deep-state and MIC reptiles talk their own books, using these media firms as sock-puppets. Without anonymity the whole exercise would be obviously pointless. With anonymity they're able to stoke lots of fear of brown people.