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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by pyre on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @10:33PM (#12740551)
> 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...

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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by rhizome on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:37AM (#12741588)
Do 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?

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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by Esau on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:51AM (#12742420)
It can't.
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