So what is the definition of a journalist? According to the American Heritage Dictionary, and I paraphrase, it is one whose occupation is journalism (cop-out) or one who keeps a journal.<\/p>\n
What do I<\/span> think of this? Me? An opinion? What a concept. Ok, enough with the sarcasm. Of course I have one. THIS IS A JOURNAL!<\/span><\/p>\n I guess that makes me a journalist. In fact, it is even a commercial endeavor. And I don’t mean in any grey, mushy way. I don’t mean that it improves my career potential over time. NOPE, I mean that I sell advertising. Actually, I trade “Blogger” space for a banner in return for the use of a system to edit, post and show off my blog!<\/p>\n People, that makes me a journalist. Not a good one maybe, but since when has quality been part of meeting the bar? Seen Fox news lately? One thing I don’t have is an editor. Peer review? Well, I did tell most of my peers what I was doing, so I guess so!<\/p>\n There have been complaints (MANY) that there is a lack of “journalistic” impartiality. I won’t go into much detail here, but I do have a FEW points:<\/p>\n 1) Seen Fox News lately?<\/p>\n 2) Advertising revenue?<\/p>\n Think what you want, I take EVERYTHING I read, see or hear the same way I take much of my food! With a grain of salt, so to speak!<\/p>\n (humorous aside… Blogger’s spellcheck doesn’t recognize spellcheck, Blogger, NOR Blog!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So what is the definition of a journalist? According to the American Heritage Dictionary, and I paraphrase, it is one whose occupation is journalism (cop-out) or one who keeps a journal. What do I think of this? Me? An opinion? What a concept. Ok, enough with the sarcasm. Of course I have one. THIS IS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqbc8-h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}