Teribus ~~ You still seem to think that "journalist" only means "reporter". Rubbish. All those who write for, or administer, the press are journalists. Reporter is just one of the dozens of different jobs that journalists do. If you can't use terminology precisely, you can't expect any of your arguments to convince anyone.

I am not concerned here with questions of accuracy, reliability, or any such; merely with semantic accuracy. From the junior trainee on the local paper to the Editor-in-Chief of Times newspapers, they are all journalists, and you are simply pissing down the wind to try and deny it in order to make inaccurate and unconvincing debating points.

Jim: I wasn't accusing you of any such false distinctions. Teribus is the one making them.

A pity, Teribus, because in general in this thread you have IMO rather more of the right of it that JC, but are doing yourself no favours by undermining your own arguments with this inaccurate semantic stupidity.

~M~