Congress is working on a bill that has the effect of defining who is or is not a real journalist. Politico suggests Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) is a prime mover therein. The point of the legislation is to define who may protect their sources from disclosure. If the bill passes, only "real" journalists would be able to refuse to identify sources.
COTTonLINE takes the position that journalism is a process, that whoever practices that process is a journalist, whether paid or not, whether working at it full-time, part-time, or even intermittently.
