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Re:Talk: An open-source commenting platform focused on bette... by naasking on Friday July 19, 2019 @08:32AM (#20478053)

> The term "journalist" is no more subjective than "author" (literature) or "programmer".

It's more contentious than that. Journalists supposedly deal with "facts", but there's often considerable disagreement over facts or their interpretation. No matter your political persuasion, I'm sure there are "journalists" making a living on this, as per your definition, but who operate on the opposite end of the political spectrum from you and from whom you'd want very badly to strip that title of legitimacy.

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Re:Talk: An open-source commenting platform focused on bette... by adamsea on Friday July 19, 2019 @09:04AM (#20478288)

I would say defining who is and isn’t a journalist can sometimes be complicated and difficult, but rarely genuinely subjective.

There has been a lot of writing and thinking and discussion around what makes a journalist, and different styles of journalism, for some time now.

Ultimately the challenge is differing views of reality - disagreement about truth. I think that’s the root issue.

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