Message: 4 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:51:23 -0800 (PST) From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 20051108045123.83078.qmail@web51611.mail.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Credentials are given by organizations - not by just some people on the Internet (which is all any Wikimedia project is by itself). Using that term - in the real world where it has a specific meaning - to describe that process is very misleading.
In normal newspapers also the emplyment status and the wages are given by the organization More precisely the credential is given by the same organization is given by who recruit the journalist. Since here the "journalist" is not recruit by the Board, there is no reason why it should the only one entitle to give out creential.
In my Opinion what is misleading is the way normal journalist consider themselves.
Why should journalist be treated in a different way of normal people when asking for informations?
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