On 6/5/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
I still don't like the fact that the guys' names are there. They are not relevant to the story.
And I think the names are absolutely essential to the article. Until I saw the names I found myself thinking "how do we know this wasn't a staged incident". With the names, it's clear that if it was a hoax it was an elaborate one.
Could this have been presented without the names, in some kind of "we know the names, but we're not telling you them"? I guess, but then I would have found myself clicking on the references or googling the details and finding out the names anyway.