I don’t think that their principal goal is to doxx him. But there is a big difference between a habit and a rule. It’s not that they used the name without thinking about it, but they specifically rejected his complaint and said that they were just following orders.
On many other places I see people discussing this, they point out that the reporter’s claim that there is an NYT policy is a bald-faced lie. You are the first person I have seen that took it at face value. This LW discussion is striking because no one else acknowledges the claim at all. I think that they believe that it is a lie, but don’t want to rudely point that out, so they pretend it was not uttered.
Added, next day: I estimate that 99% of the time that NYT writes about someone with a professional pseudonym, they treat it as a real name. 1% of the time, they note that it is a pseudonym and 1⁄10 of those times, 1/1000 of all times they print the real name.
Seriously, 99% of the time. I am not being hyperbolic. The main source of uncertainty is how often they write about someone with a professional pseudonym. I estimate that NYT writes about someone with a professional surname every day.
I don’t think that their principal goal is to doxx him. But there is a big difference between a habit and a rule. It’s not that they used the name without thinking about it, but they specifically rejected his complaint and said that they were just following orders.
On many other places I see people discussing this, they point out that the reporter’s claim that there is an NYT policy is a bald-faced lie. You are the first person I have seen that took it at face value. This LW discussion is striking because no one else acknowledges the claim at all. I think that they believe that it is a lie, but don’t want to rudely point that out, so they pretend it was not uttered.
Added, next day: I estimate that 99% of the time that NYT writes about someone with a professional pseudonym, they treat it as a real name. 1% of the time, they note that it is a pseudonym and 1⁄10 of those times, 1/1000 of all times they print the real name.
Seriously, 99% of the time. I am not being hyperbolic. The main source of uncertainty is how often they write about someone with a professional pseudonym. I estimate that NYT writes about someone with a professional surname every day.