Is a journalist credentialed or do they just call themselves a journalist?
” journalist credentialed “
Only by their own organization. There are hundreds of “journalist” identifications one can get, but none are any level of official.
Both.
(Con #1)Institutions of ‘higher learning’ take peoples’ money to provide them with degrees in ‘journalism’
(Con #2) The ‘graduates’ then (based on HOW photogenic they are)get themselves hired at news outlets and read everything that’s shoved under their nose.
(Con #3) News outlets cultivate this BS culture of mindless and barely articulate automatons to indoctrinate the equally mindless and completely uneducated idiots who go out and vote exactly the way the media intends.
(Con #4) American taxpayers subsidize the whole show on April 15, EVERY year.