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

[johns_priv@mastodon.social]

@kentparkstreet1 Problem is that it has already been done, remember the Panama papers? Remember how the only one to suffer was the whistleblower who got killed with a car bomb? Precisely..

[amalia22@mastodon.social]

@kentparkstreet1

[androcat@toot.cat]

@kentparkstreet1 Corrupt billionaires paid them to do it.

[hashbangperl@hachyderm.io]

@kentparkstreet1 British art and fans have always politely not looked too closely into Banksy identity, not because it was especially hard to find, but because it was part of the art and was the wish of the artist. This isn't journalism its just like telling a 6 year old there is no santa. Fuck these tabloid hacks.

[mim54@mstdn.social]

@kentparkstreet1 they only like anonymity when it’s one of theirs don’t they? Is it spite? ️

[lockedintospace@mastodon.social]

@kentparkstreet1 Let's face it, people: we can no longer be anonymous in this damn world.

[amalia22@mastodon.social]

@kentparkstreet1 Thank you. I am deeply honoured.

[regendans@todon.eu]

I did already read about this.

Reuters, shame on you!!!

Just a moment...

(www.rte.ie)

[kentparkstreet1@mastodon.online]

@amalia22

And thank you.

[amalia22@mastodon.social]

@kentparkstreet1 My pleasure.

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@kentparkstreet1 wow what a great use of journalistic skills!

[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.