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.
I don’t mean his name or background, I am talking about the videos where he is bragging, they can report the video but don’t show it.
There are people that actually share these sick brags.
>>Their names actually do not matter. Why they perpetrated their crimes - and who enabled them, passively or actively, matters.
If we lived in a era of responsible journalism, you would be 100% right.
The Asiana case of needing to get the scoop in a time period measured in minutes is one proof that responsible journalism no longer exists. The other extremes are the cases of muslim names where the “identity of the shooter is unknown” for days, but when the shooter has a clearly western name, we know about the time he pulled a girl’s pigtails in 2nd grade while the bodies are still warm.
The name does matter for the first 24 hours. Then, we can scrub it from our collective consciousness.