Can I kindly ask you to explain what is the problem with this kind of message? I see this all the time - journalists critique pseudononymous internet writers.

Can I kindly ask you to explain what is the problem with this kind of message? I see this all the time - journalists critique pseudononymous internet writers. All through these pieces there's references to "who they really are" and "could they get away with saying this in public with their real name". Why is this a bad thing? I know the NYTimes isn't the most moral upstanding institution, but they are hardly stochastic terrorists?