Justice Byron White says she is a journalist:
U.S. Supreme Court
BRANZBURG v. HAYES, 408 U.S. 665 (1972)
408 U.S. 665

BRANZBURG v. HAYES ET AL., JUDGES
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF KENTUCKY

No. 70-85.

Argued February 23, 1972
Decided June 29, 1972

LINK IS HERE:
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/press/topic.aspx?topic=blogging

HIS QUOTE FOLLOWS:
“Sooner or later, it would be necessary to define those categories of newsmen who qualified for the privilege, a questionable procedure in light of the traditional doctrine that liberty of the press is the right of the lonely pamphleteer who uses carbon paper or a mimeograph just as much as of the large metropolitan publisher who utilizes the latest photocomposition methods.”

White added:

“Freedom of the press is a ‘fundamental personal right’ which ‘is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. … The press in its historic connotation comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion.’ … The informative function asserted by representatives of the organized press in the present cases is also performed by lecturers, political pollsters, novelists, academic researchers, and dramatists.”

Not hard to understand even for the layman! Do you understand it now? If not your part of the problem!

The entire case can be read at the following url:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=408&invol=665

you mean NO ONE HAS TOLD YOU YET.

it is freaking appalling, man. the fact that BEAT was made bigger makes it appalling. those guys are jerks. the slash 68 thing too is a slap in the face.