[jlarocco]

Seems like a publicity stunt.

A face covering would cost nothing and achieve the end goal of hiding their identity.

[sportslife]

This solves multiple goals: hide identity, show anon-source exists, and show facial emotions to viewers.

The latter is a huge win for making media people want to watch. Same reason all those cable stations segment the screen into four with a face in each corner, or why streamers overlay their gaming with a their face on a webcam. We like faces.

[jlarocco]

> The latter is a huge win for making media people want to watch.

I get that people like faces, but the news should be real. Maybe I'm expecting too much of the BBC, but it seems pretty short-sighted to start carrying fake news, even if they are only starting with a fake face.

[Eleison23]

I guess you're right, but if it's on the news, shouldn't we expect factual data rather than "a pageant" as De Niro repeated in "Wag the Dog"?