Random thought -- in my last post I mentioned being in Boston to meet with "some journalists," as if I wasn't a journalist myself.
True, I'm not working as a journalist these days, but I prefer to think of myself as a "non-practicing journalist" rather than a "former journalist." I tend to think that being a journalist is not just a job, but something that a person is as opposed to something that one does. Maybe that's giving too much credit to the practice, but I think being a real journalist is a way of thinking as much as it's a way of working.
I could digress here on a long discussion about the differences between being a blogger and a journalist, and why the whole "blogging vs. journalism" thing is a bogus distinction, but no time this morning. Feel free to discuss, though.
Journalism
Random thought -- in my last post I mentioned being in Boston to meet with "some journalists," as if I wasn't a journalist myself.
True, I'm not working as a journalist these days, but I prefer to think of myself as a "non-practicing journalist" rather than a "former journalist." I tend to think that being a journalist is not just a job, but something that a person is as opposed to something that one does. Maybe that's giving too much credit to the practice, but I think being a real journalist is a way of thinking as much as it's a way of working.
I could digress here on a long discussion about the differences between being a blogger and a journalist, and why the whole "blogging vs. journalism" thing is a bogus distinction, but no time this morning. Feel free to discuss, though.