...she sneers! Were you looking over her shoulder when she wrote the column? If not, is your comment not an example of how many bloggers confuse a large segment of the internet community. Scopes puts bread on the table due to the nature of the internet. Also Most people's perception of journalist and columnist adds to the confusing.
Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Ixnay on the Xwayxway
July 5, 2010 – 10:56 am
BEST (AND WORST) OF A SLOW WEEKEND
It’s summer out there in Pundit-land, and the pickings are a bit slim. The good news is, you don’t have to read them!
More G20 questions
The Globe and Mail’s Christie Blatchford starts out by supporting due process for anyone who feels he was mistreated by the cops during the G20 crackdown, including members of the Blogger/Tweeter brigade. But she thinks some of those people have inappropriately claimed the title of Journalist despite the fact they have no editors or lawyers or Press Council overseeing them. You’re not a journalist just “because you and your friends say you are or because your ‘writings’ appear on a website,” she sneers.
The whole “what is a journalist” debate aside, the main problem here is that she doesn’t identify any of these people — or indeed any of the people who supposedly think any self-styled “alternative journalist” should “be automatically assumed to be an infallible truth-teller or always accurate.” And then she admits that journalists get stuff wrong all the time. And then she says (and we agree) that press credentials don’t and shouldn’t afford any kind of special status in the first place. And then she says the authority under which the vast majority of people, journalists or otherwise, were arrested is “vile” and “easily misused by police.” So why go after all the amateurs out there with cameras and iPhones — who are, incidentally, as the Robert Dziekanski case proved, providing an utterly invaluable service to society? We honestly don’t get it.
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It’s summer out there in Pundit-land, and the pickings are a bit slim. The good news is, you don’t have to read them!
More G20 questions
The Globe and Mail’s Christie Blatchford starts out by supporting due process for anyone who feels he was mistreated by the cops during the G20 crackdown, including members of the Blogger/Tweeter brigade. But she thinks some of those people have inappropriately claimed the title of Journalist despite the fact they have no editors or lawyers or Press Council overseeing them. You’re not a journalist just “because you and your friends say you are or because your ‘writings’ appear on a website,” she sneers.
The whole “what is a journalist” debate aside, the main problem here is that she doesn’t identify any of these people — or indeed any of the people who supposedly think any self-styled “alternative journalist” should “be automatically assumed to be an infallible truth-teller or always accurate.” And then she admits that journalists get stuff wrong all the time. And then she says (and we agree) that press credentials don’t and shouldn’t afford any kind of special status in the first place. And then she says the authority under which the vast majority of people, journalists or otherwise, were arrested is “vile” and “easily misused by police.” So why go after all the amateurs out there with cameras and iPhones — who are, incidentally, as the Robert Dziekanski case proved, providing an utterly invaluable service to society? We honestly don’t get it.
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