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grahamhgreen

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5. Bull. A journalist already has a definition!!! Here:

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Thu Sep 12, 2013, 04:11 PM

Sep 2013

WEBSTERS:

Definition of JOURNALIST
1
a : a person engaged in journalism; especially : a writer or editor for a news medium
b : a writer who aims at a mass audience

jour·nal·ism

: the activity or job of collecting, writing, and editing news stories for newspapers, magazines, television, or radio

Not one word about getting paid.

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Senate Panel Approves Measure Defining A Journalist, OKs Media Shield Legislation [View all] Purveyor Sep 2013 OP

Related. proverbialwisdom Sep 2013 #1

+1 nt Earth_First Sep 2013 #2

Licensing Journalists is Very Bad. Media shield should not be necessary under Constitution. nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2013 #3

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. Scuba Sep 2013 #6

Isn't this pretty much codifying the NY Times v. US case? alp227 Sep 2013 #8

By narrowing the def of journalist, the Senate bill restricts anonymity, but it's worse. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2013 #10

Then I hope this bill DOES get filibustered alp227 Sep 2013 #11

Horrors! They will define "priest," "minister," "pastor," "bishop," and then next they will define JDPriestly Sep 2013 #4

Bull. A journalist already has a definition!!! Here: grahamhgreen Sep 2013 #5

Only paid shills are allowed to speak. All others must be silenced. Scuba Sep 2013 #7

Schumer had 19 cosponsors - alp227 Sep 2013 #9