Comment by eru
7 days ago
Morally, that's a valid position to take. Pragmatically, I'd call every human who writes for a newspaper like the NYT a 'journalist'.
(Of course, we could extend the same game and deny the moniker of 'newspaper' for a rag like that. But at some point, we are drifting too far from the mainstream accepted definition of words.)
You say mainstream. I say Orwellian. We can’t lower the bar and expect standards to be maintained. It doesn’t work that way. If most them are reporters then call them that. FFS even influencers is more accurate. But journalists? They. Are. Not.