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Hawke[_3_]

On 12/8/2011 7:17 PM, wrote:
On Dec 8, 8:14 pm, wrote:

Then he will tell you. But the point is that while you don't need any
license to be a journalist there are and have always been ways to know
who is a journalist and who isn't. First off, is that how you make your
living? Second, do you work for or are you affiliated with any kind of
recognized media source? Or is your work regularly published in a
reputable place? If you can't fulfill those kinds of things then you are
on thin ice. If the only way one can tell you are a journalist is
because you say you are then I would consider you are not one.

Hawke

So you are going to say that the following is not a journalist. A
young person who inherits a lot of money so he does not need to work
can not be a journalist because that is not how he makes his living?
Or the independent correspondent who is not affiliated with any
recognized media source is not a journalist. Or the young person who
writes news stories and submits them to reputable places, but is not
regularly published, is not a journalist.

In my estimation a journalist is one who writes. Whether he is
published or not does not matter. Whether he makes a living at it
does not matter. Whether he is affiliated with one of the media does
not matter.

Dan

I think you would admit that anyone who writes is a writer. But is
everyone who writes really a "writer"?

Hawke