What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake?

Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by GuiA on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:21PM (#12739916)

> Are politics bloggers journalists? Are bloggers who occasionally talk about politics journalists? Are people who livetweet a news event that they're involved in acting as journalists?

No. They are respectively a blogger, a blogger, and a Twitter user.

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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by nercht12 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:56PM (#12740390)

Then what's a "journalist"? Someone who gets paid to go do the research? "Journalist" is derived from "journal" (duh, but important) - bloggers are nothing more than online journalists. The fact that they are called "bloggers" is only because society has elected to stick with the term "blog" for an online journal.

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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by K_REY_C on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:51PM (#12740370)

And yet if they're at the same event I'm quite likely getting something that, in combination, is much closer to what I'd call journalism.

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