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Because any competent journalist, when writing about someone uses their real name!


Not true. Journalists generally do *not* use real names when doing so would likely result in actual harm - stalkers outside her door, strangers calling her parents or sister at all hours, etc - and if it isn't necessarily to tell the news story. There are other cases: mob informants, underage kids, etc.

In cases where someone is known to the public by a stage-name then a journalist will always use that name, sometimes omitting the real name entirely (TV journalists rarely take the time to mention an unfamiliar real name unless it matters for the story; print journalists are more likely to do it).
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