Is anyone with a webcam, a website or a blog really a journalist?

has today's multimedia taken anything away from people who train to gather news, develop sources, strengthen their writing skills, layout and design? What makes someone who writes a daily column different from someone who writes a blog covering the same subject? A California newspaper recently gave a job covering it's city hall meetings to a telecommuter in India. Are the people of that community being deprived of real journalism???

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Why not ask the media conglomerates, who trashed the profession over the last 20 years?

Face it, the days of Woodward and Bernstein, and the ideological purity that drove them and their editor and publisher, are gone. Our 'professional' media is full of pretty boys with empty heads or converted entertainment females, and none of them ask the tough questions or investigate business or government.

The 'fourth estate' has been raided and overrun by Clear Channel and Rupert Murdoch. The blogosphere is the only beacon rising from the ashes of a once-sterling part of our democracy.

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People with blogs and webcams still rely on print media and other big news companies. Those aren't really journalists.

I can go help someone who is chocking on piece of candy. I can help someone when they get burned or cut. That doesn't make me a doctor.