No, no, a thousand times no. Setting up “secrecy of the press” is just setting us up for something like the recent affair in England, where someone was hustled away by the police for the non-existent “crime” of filming a Muslim gang being walked into the court...and the members of the press not only were told they could not report it, but those who had already done so had to remove their reports from on-line versions of their publications.
Suppressing their identification is the worst thing we could do. It’s the first step to suppressing freedom of the press. It’s also the first step towards shutting down FR and all independent information exchanges.
Bingo.
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You have a point. OTOH the famousKTVU Reports Asiana Air Pilots Were “Sum Ting Wong” and “Ho Lee Fuk”is actually a parody of the fatuity of breathlessly reporting the names of people involved in an incident as if the specific names actually mattered to anyone not related to them. The link used to include the actual video, which was hilarious. The names were wrong, and in a real sense it was a sin. But the video was hilarious because it was a con pulled off on people ("the MSM”) who take themselves and their oh-so-significant work to be “as serious as a heart attack.”And IMHO the same principle applies to berserkers who want to “set a record” and make a name (no matter how or what kind of name) for themselves. Their names actually do not matter. Why they perpetrated their crimes - and who enabled them, passively or actively, matters.
I don’t care what the name is of the berserker who shot Steve Scalise. I do care that he was a Democrat, and I do care that Democrats be embarrassed at the association. And that he does not walk. But his name? His name is excrement.