I first started writing for the college newspaper in 1966. Even had a press card. I wonder what ever happened to it?
Since then about all I have written is some letters to the editor and a couple of odd articles, both of them pretty long.
There is a difference between what we do here and a journalist...
A journalist now days is a liar mostly, turns facts to fit their fancy...doesn’t care if it hurts the reputation of anyone, they don’t care...
What we do here is have ‘opinions’ and they come from the heart...we tell it like it is, some like it, some don’t, to bad...we all are protected by Our First Amendment Rights...
So there may be some on here that are ‘journalists’ as there are some ‘lawyers’ ‘doctors’ ‘teachers’ and others, but for the most part we are Americans speaking our minds...
Yes. Degrees in communication and planning to advance in it. Any American who observes things and tells stories about events and so forth is a journalist.
Don’t you dare call me a journalist. I have much higher standards than that.
These days if you have girl parts and want to be a boy, you just have to say that’s what you are.
Same thing applies for ‘journalism’.
Nobody here claims to be a “journalist”. Just average Americans venting their spleens.
1st amendment applies. As for the so-called “journalists” who make crap up out of whole cloth and claim the official air of “journalist”, I’m not so sure anymore.
Excerpt:
What and Who We Are
The Constitution First Amendment Press Association (CFAPA.org) was founded in March, 2014 to provide credentials and to provide a venue for a mostly anonymous association of independent American Citizen Journalists. We provide press credentials free of charge to any adult American Citizen who accepts the Constitutional Journalist’s Pledge and who agrees to CFAPA’s Member Terms and Conditions.
The founders of the CFAPA organization were Robert Henry, Rawles (a home-schooled college student) and his father, James Wesley, Rawles. (A journalism school graduate and the founder of SurvivalBlog.com.) They are both strong advocates of a Free Press (including Citizen Journalism), as well as advocates for all of the other rights that are spelled out in and guaranteed by The Bill of Rights.
The CFAPA is not politically affiliated and has members from a broad range of religious, economic, ethnic, and political backgrounds. Our members all have just two things in common: we love our liberty, and we have a yearning to seek and herald the truth, via Citizen Journalism.
1.) Read and accept the 20-point Constitutional Journalist’s Pledge
2.) Next, read and accept CFAPA’s Member Terms and Conditions.
3.) Finally, download and insert your name and the date in the PDFs of your free credentials page, dashboard sign, hat tag, and press badge. You can then print them at home.
(Badge laminating and full page credentials laminating is available locally at most photocopy shops and UPS Stores.)
Again, for your privacy, we keep no records of Members!
I know how to capitalize First Amendment.
How dare you question the self-appointed fourth branch (i.e. fifth column) of the United States government?
Journalism degree?
Right up there with degrees in alchemy and astrology, except these two degrees are more academic.
The Constitution never uses the word “journalist”. It refers to “freedom of speech, or of the press”, two of the many nearly absolute rights held by all Americans. Those constitutional protections reinforce my God-given rights to speak freely and to type, print, or otherwise post my thoughts, beliefs, and opinions.
Freedom of the press is very much an individual right held by every American citizen, regardless of our profession. I don’t need to be a journalist to have that right, just as I don’t need to be active duty military to have an individual, God-given, and constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The phrase that some seem to think gives journalists a prized position is "freedom...of the press". It is thought by such people that the word "press" means a privileged class of journalists. But I am afraid this is nonsense for a few reasons:
The word "speech" is used in parallel with the word "press" with freedom applying to both. It is or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. Certainly the word "speech" here does not apply to a privileged class of people but to an action that people can take. Likewise, a common sense interpretation of "press" is the action of using a printing press. And it must be that action that is not abridged. For what does it mean for the government to "abridge" people?
Moreover, it seems ludicrous to think it means that although non-press people can be somehow "abridged" in some ways (although not by speech or in worship or assembly) but press people can not be...since the whole context of the Bill of Rights was that of clarifying some negative examples as an assurance that the Federal government was not to go beyond the scope of the powers specifically granted to it in the body of the Constitution; added to the fact that the Constitution does not mention any special status for journalists, making it silly to think that a clarification of the Constitution would do so.
Good topic
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Never been a journalist. Used to have a lot of respect for them. Used to.
Real News Journalism requires two elements most folks here lack, that is, Free Speech protection and expensive resources.
No dis, but few Americans have well protected freedom of expression, that requires an expensive legal team. Write that you are pro clubbing baby seals, and your home and work could suffer consequences.
Secondly, resources to research current events are expensive. Google is limited. Fake news journos have both elements but use it for wicked ends. A Breitbart journalist would have the elements, and truth at their back.
Rare indeed.
The amateur journo though, can be more interesting, especially when he or she is well read. That is a great compensator.
Is your head up your ass? Then you might be a journalist.