There may be some here who are not familiar with our Tradition of personal anonymity at the public level: “Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, film and electronic media”
Thus we respectfully ask that no A.A. speaker – or indeed any A.A. member – be identified by full name or photograph in published or broadcast reports of our meeting.
The assurance of anonymity is essential in our effort to help other problem drinkers who may wish to share our recovery program with us. Also our Tradition of anonymity reminds us that A.A. principals come before personalities.