So upset about Banksy but don’t care who he is

It appears that the graffiti artist Banksy, who somehow continues to maintain his anonymity in the presence of intimate business with the media, has upset many people by saying in an unpublished op-ed piece that the World Trade Centre is bland. It is so bland, said this elusive spray-paint virtuoso of bomb-throwing misfits, that it looks like something they would build in Canada. Yawn. The New York Times is said to have refused to publish this article. That’s their business. What astonishes is that once again the media finds it is just fine to play dumb about Banksy’s identity.