The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
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The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
They suck.
They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.
They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.
Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.
They suck.
@kentparkstreet1 Thank you. I am deeply honoured.
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The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
They suck.
They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.
They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.
Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.
They suck.
I did already read about this.
Reuters, shame on you!!! 
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@kentparkstreet1 Thank you. I am deeply honoured.
And thank you.
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And thank you.
@kentparkstreet1 My pleasure.
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The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
They suck.
They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.
They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.
Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.
They suck.
@kentparkstreet1 wow what a great use of journalistic skills!
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The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
They suck.
They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.
They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.
Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.
They suck.
@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.
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The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
They suck.
They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.
They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.
Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.
They suck.
@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
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The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
They suck.
They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.
They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.
Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.
They suck.
@kentparkstreet1 I'm still hoping that Banksy will play a big prank on them and their story
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The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
They suck.
They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.
They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.
Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.
They suck.
@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 -
The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
They suck.
They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.
They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.
Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.
They suck.
@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'
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The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
They suck.
They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.
They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.
Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.
They suck.
@kentparkstreet1
Name then and shame them. If they can dox Banksy we should dox them. -
@kentparkstreet1 Corrupt billionaires paid them to do it.
@androcat @kentparkstreet1
That doesn’t absolve them in the slightest. -
The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
They suck.
They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.
They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.
Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.
They suck.
@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.
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I didn’t read the article. I prefer to maintain the illusion.
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@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.
@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
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@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
@_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.
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@androcat @kentparkstreet1
That doesn’t absolve them in the slightest. -
The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.
They suck.
They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.
They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.
Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.
They suck.
@kentparkstreet1 @jwz a lot lot lot of journalists suck
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@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..
@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.
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I didn’t read the article. I prefer to maintain the illusion.
