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Who is considered a journalism goes to the issue of who is considered the press, and the first amendment -- freedom of the press. I believe our founders did not create freedom of the press only to protect mainstream media, although that is part of it. They created it to protect, also, the lone pamphleteer that printed his thoughts and stands on the street corner, handing them out. Is that not what a blogger is today? A lone pamphleteer? Government should never define who is a "legitimate" journalism and who is not. In a free society, with freedom of the press, we need to take all journalists, no matter their scope.

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