The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.

[js@mastodon.nl]

@kentparkstreet1 I agree they suck. But not because the time they spent to breach anonimity wasn’t spent elsewhere. That they violated it is reason enough.

Yes, they should do things that matter. But that argument doesn’t inhibit doing other stuff. Every penny spent at the pub might make a more significant difference elsewhere. The starving billions need it more. Yet socializing is also important.

A fair scheduler allocates resources to low prio tasks too. That matters.

[ronanmcd@mastodon.green]

@kentparkstreet1 they are everything as you say, but also worth remembering they work for Reuters.

Reuters have an agenda, the Wikipedia entry for them is very good on this. Banksy's mural in support of Palestine Action would have gone against Reuters' pro-Israel line, as paid for by the British government

[paniczgodek@functional.cafe]

@kentparkstreet1 I'm still hoping that Banksy will play a big prank on them and their story

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@kentparkstreet1
Anyway, now that's out of the way I'm sure they'll go back to that other stuff they were supposed to be doing... Being the 5th estate or whatever

[capnthommo@c.im]

@kentparkstreet1 and there are far more valid areas for their research. All the time finding out things nobody wanted to know when there's so much important stuff affecting millions that they could be unearthing. Stuff that people really really don't want revealing - to the extent that they'll attack Iran to distract from it'

[freediverx@mastodon.social]

@kentparkstreet1
Name then and shame them. If they can dox Banksy we should dox them.

[freediverx@mastodon.social]

@androcat @kentparkstreet1
That doesn’t absolve them in the slightest.

[tokyo_0@mas.to]

@kentparkstreet1 You mean Simon Gardner, James Pearson and Blake Morrison of #Reuters? (source: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-art-banksy/)

If I'd written that verbose nothing-burger and presented it to the world as #journalism I'd be ashamed of myself. They should be, too. Very poor judgment by Reuters as well.

[kentparkstreet1@mastodon.online]

@leeuw

I didn’t read the article. I prefer to maintain the illusion.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@tokyo_0 @kentparkstreet1 I'm really disgusted by this report, as it violated the wished anonymity of an artist. WHY spend all this time and energy on it? Who cares?

INVESTIGATE THE EPSTEIN FILES INSTEAD DAMMIT

[tokyo_0@mas.to]

@_elena @kentparkstreet1 Took a closer look at one of the names. Pearson claims to be a Cambridge graduate, and is a seasoned writer who speaks Chinese and Korean, ran a bureau in Vietnam and specialises now in open-source intelligence. He could use his OSINT skills examining incidents that have caused civilian casualties in Ukraine, Gaza and Iran, and yet he chooses to waste those skills on this. Utterly shameful.

[androcat@toot.cat]

@freediverx

Indeed. Taking money from the enemies of mankind makes it worse.

@kentparkstreet1

[stonykark@mstdn.ca]

@kentparkstreet1 @jwz a lot lot lot of journalists suck

[tzafrir@tooot.im]

@Johns_priv @kentparkstreet1
Just re-read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers and it's not true.

Journalists do seem to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

[imalcolm@mastodon.social]

@kentparkstreet1

Same. Don't want to know. Don't need to know. Just appreciate the art.

@leeuw

[zimpenfish@social.rjp.is]

@kentparkstreet1@mastodon.online In mitigation, exposing political corruption sounds like hard work and they are lazy arseholes.

[johns_priv@mastodon.social]

@tzafrir @kentparkstreet1 I never said they can't, I used the example to illustrate the dangers they face.

Although this is not new, how many press people has Israel killed during the genocide in Gaza?
I'm saying it's incredibly dangerous, for them and their loved ones, to do just that.

Meanwhile, Banksy is not dangerous, and he pissed off plenty of powerful people.
Remember that painting that destroyed itself after the auction?

I don't agree with the unmasking, I just see the logic.

[tzafrir@tooot.im]

@Johns_priv @kentparkstreet1
So journalism should only be about extremely dangerous things?

a reporter reported corruption in the city of Ashkelon and that led to a criminal investigation. All the money involved there was not even the cost of a nice Banksy painting. And noone was killed. So no journalist should really be looking into it, right?

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@kentparkstreet1
Those journalists were wrong, Kent.
I am Banksy.
And I am also Spartacus.

[marshray@infosec.exchange]

@lockedintospace @kentparkstreet1 Funny how little folks appreciate the service of being shown what they’d rather pretend wasn’t true.