Thanks. This is going to take a little time to digest.

Often in conflicts like this it's worth considering what the outcome of the battle will be and what the implications are.

The thread you linked to here sounds reasonable and it's good to see that it doesn't assign blame to the journalist and appreciates that they've been acting within what may be the confines of their workplace policy.

That said -- the real name policy probably exists for a reason, perhaps to ensure that subjects of news that is in the public interest find it more difficult to evade scrutiny. (edit: add word 'perhaps'; conjecture)

I'm not implying that scrutiny of the blog and community are necessarily a good thing. I honestly don't know how much influence they have. But policy changes can have lasting effects in other, potentially very different, circumstances, so I'll take a bit of time and update my comment based on this.