i'm really sick of people trying to pull the "journalism" card as if journalist is some protected class with special privileges. every random annoying dude wit

i'm really sick of people trying to pull the "journalism" card as if journalist is some protected class with special privileges. every random annoying dude with a substack is a journalist. you're not special. and yeah, maybe once upon a time there was a legitimate reason for concern when people tried to suppress journalism. but now everybody is a journalist, and so there's no special privileges for journalism. if you turn up at a business and start harassing employees, expect to get shoved out the door, regardless of whether or not you have applied the "journalist" label to yourself.