Mike - overlooked your postings
"What on earth makes either of you imagine that "journalist" is exclusively synonymous with "reporter"
I don't believe I ever described Hastings as a "reporter", nor do I believe it to be a derogatory term, though it has been debased by some of that trade - particularly by those who work for the rag in question.
My only point was that if "real historians" are the only ones permissible in these discussion, then that must be applied to all and not used to debunk or exclude information, as it all-too-often is by our usual suspect.
Jim Carroll