Journalism Is Different Than Surgery

Hazinski trots out the old “a guy with a scalpel isn’t a ‘citizen surgeon’” argument, which completely misses the point. Journalism is not surgery, for one thing — or presumably it would be regulated like medicine is, with licensing and testing requirements, and a professional body with the ability to remove a licence. If you go to Afghanistan and start writing about what’s happening, and your work is published somewhere, and you try your best to be fair and accurate, what are you? To Hazinski, you’re nobody.

For more detailed dismantling of Dave’s attempt at an argument, see some thoughts at Techdirt too.