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b_b  ·  4280 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes

You don't agree that he's not a journalist?!?! You or I could get a source and blog about it, and then we'd be journalists. For now, however, we're not, so it's hypothetical. Same applies to him. He has to right to practice journalism if he chooses, but he doesn't so he has nothing to worry about from the administration.





mk  ·  4280 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wouldn't typically call Rush a journalist, but I would say that he practices journalism from time to time.

I would say that I am practicing journalism here on Hubski occasionally.

thenewgreen  ·  4280 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media
-According to Merriam Webster, he would fall under the journalism definition. -It's pretty broad.
cliffelam  ·  4280 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Who gets to choose how much "blowhard opinion" someone has in their broadcast before they're a journalist?

There is no hate speech or unprotected speech - there is just speech.

-C

b_b  ·  4280 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think you and mk don't have any idea what I was saying, so I'll restate it. Rush doesn't need to worry about the gov't coming down on him, because he doesn't, as far as I know, practice journalism in the way the word is usually used--that is, investigative journalism. I never said that he doesn't have a right to say what he wants, when he wants, to whomever he wants.

mk  ·  4280 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I see. However, if Rush said he heard this about North Korea from a source, between blowing hotair, then for that short moment I think he would be practicing journalism, and be protected as such.