Journalism Means Reporting Facts.

I'm no fan of brand builders posing as newspeople, but reporting who the anonymous creator is behind a now popular website that curates tik-tok videos being used for political purposes seems fair game.

That's honest reporting, if the story simply provides a name, and basic public information about that person.  If the facts were honestly obtained from the public record, that's reporting.  If someone wishes to remain anonymous, even if they are female, but their enterprise has grown so large that people are curious who created a site, how can she complain when honest facts come out?

It's kind of the opposite of the now-discredited Steele dossier, a false collection of facts that was funded by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats back in their darker days... Or the non-reporting the political media did on the now-acknowledged Hunter Biden laptop story.

Facts matter.  Prominent players draw attention. People are curious to look behind the scenes and understand who is creating what they consume.

In this case, a woman reporter reported that another woman built and maintains a now-popular website.  I'm not watching those videos, but politicians surely are and draw attention to them. So what?

I'm not reading the stories about what was reported yesterday about the creator -- I don't care who this person is -- but I can't get outraged that facts came out.  Deal with it.

The problem seems to be, those facts might lead to acts of aggression, or nasty communications, to the website creator.  But that doesn't mean you don't report facts or that you condemn the reporter who printed them...

What kind of America would that be if we can't tell the truth?  And had to hide the truth to allegedly protect people?  There's a reason the rich and famous live behind high hedges.  If you make it so big you can't really hide anymore in anonymity anymore, invest in hedges...