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Advocacy groups are advocating. What's the news here? Only that they have coopted the word "media" to describe their activities. I have no problem with that, since the demise/decline of advertiser-financed news organizations is leaving a vaccuum that someone has to fill. This is not unprecedented in our history. The original "press" of the Jefferson era was virulently partisan. The ethos of an "objective" press didn't emerge until the 20th century. Perhaps what we need to do is get rid of the word "journalist," which connotes someone objectively describing what happened, and replace it with pressperson or simply "the press." Freedom of the press always did belong to whoever owned one, and now, with the Internet, that is damn near everyone.