Banksy-Should Reuters Be Pursuing This Kind of Story?

Paul Holmes, in some detail, and Rodney Pinder, in two succint lines, are surely right to question Reuters' very lengthy and detailed pursuit of the painter Bansky's identity.

Was that endeavour part of what I perhaps frivolously see as a Pulitzer Prize mentality in recent years?

OK, Banksy was not a US story but it bore all the hallmarks of American style journalism. Fine for some excellent US newspapers but less fitting for an international news agency? ■