"The bill defines a journalist as a person who has a "primary intent to investigate events and procure material" in order to inform the public by regularly gath

"The bill defines a journalist as a person who has a "primary intent to investigate events and procure material" in order to inform the public by regularly gathering information through interviews and observations. The person also must intend to report on the news at the start of obtaining any protected information and must plan to publish that news." It seems that there is some kind of existing agreement that not every blogger can be considered a journalist (eg. if someone discovers something in the course of his non-journalistic, professional duties, and chooses to publish it). Why must journalists be in a special category at all? If I (a software engineer) choose to do something journalistic, why should that not count?