I was a journalist for 20 years working in the B2B IT magazine sector in the UK. We took what we did seriously, strove for accuracy and took pride in informative reporting. There are lots of journalists like this, so I am sad to see how many people are dismissive of the work.
I can understand the anger at the NYT journalist's stance here, but I suppose I would say that we only have the blog author's view at the moment. I can think of situations where exposing an identity would be justified.
I support good journalism when I can, but I wish the profession as a whole would stop taking so much damnable pride. It's clearly edged over into widespread hubris.
I mean no insult to you personally, but I think the worse a journalist is the less money there is to pay them with. Pride is still free though. I'd like to see journalists practice some professional humility.
Journalists are an essential gear of society and democracy that's why we need to defend them and encourage them to be better.
I feel that we don't give any value to journalism anymore, ie people don't want to pay for articles or newspaper but they still want journalist to deliver valuable reporting and will trash journalist at the first occasion.
As citizens, we should encourage journalism as a profession and value it.
I can understand the anger at the NYT journalist's stance here, but I suppose I would say that we only have the blog author's view at the moment. I can think of situations where exposing an identity would be justified.