Robert Funnell <[email protected]> wrote: > I would guess that you've just thrown away whatever chance you had of > getting cooperation from the developers. (Is 'citizen journalist' a way > of saying 'unaccredited journalist'?)
Unless you have been in a freezer since the mid-80s someone with a blog or website publishing "articles" is a journalist. A journalist is not only someone who some multinational media corporation has branded their employee as such. And at times you hear or read those "accredited" journalists and you ask yourself, why is someone paying them to do what they do, they can barely tie their shoe-laces. Why are we still having such a hard time with independent and unguided free expression and sharing of ideas and opinions without corporate guidelines and agendas? > - Robert On the other hand trying to get statements from people whose weekly income depends on the lack of free expression (as representatives of their employer) ranges from insensitivity to being outright rude and obnoxious. It is rather obvious what is going on here, you don't have to twist peoples' arms to get them to state what you want stated, when it is not officially announced. That's not journalism
