IMO 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

IMO 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.