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> If the only restriction is on the title 'journalist', what stops people from calling themselves a blogger while doing exactly the same things that a journalis
by pyre 10y ago
> If the only restriction is on the title 'journalist', what stops people from calling themselves a blogger while doing exactly the same things that a journalist does?
I don't think that anyone would be proposing restricting speech in this way, but on the same note, papers such as Weekly World News maybe couldn't pump out more stories about Bat Boy while attempting to call themselves journalists...
- rhizome 10y agoDo WWN writers call themselves journalists? There's something to be said for what readers call journalism. It isn't the same for everybody. So, is it the journalist's responsibility to hold to a standard, or is it the audience's fault for thinking that a particular writer is a journalist? This raises the question: can the term "journalist" even be controlled?
- Esau 10y agoIt can't.