Comment by ksdale
6 years ago
His real identity is not particularly hard to find, and as far as I know, he is actually just a psychiatrist and the author of SSC (among other things).
6 years ago
His real identity is not particularly hard to find, and as far as I know, he is actually just a psychiatrist and the author of SSC (among other things).
That assertion seems rather at odds with "NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name", doesn't it?
Again, the idea that journalists routinely burn their sources as a matter of course is clearly wrong. Source anonymity is inviolate, especially at the level of papers like the Times. They just don't do what is being alleged here.
If they want to tell us who he is, it's because his identity IS the story.
He has fairly good reasons for caring about the distinction between “possible to discover” and “connected to the blog via the NYT”.
The story that does or doesn’t get published will tell us how central his identity is, I suppose!
Again, I'm just struck by how much credence you're giving an anonymous blogger vs. the Times here. I mean... do you have a good example of an article where the Times burned a source in a situation where the story was about something other than the source's identity?
I'll say it the last time: what is being alleged here (that the Times is "doxxing" someone for political reasons) simply Does Not Happen in real journalism. It just doesn't.
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