Concerns grow that Chuck Schumer just screwed the Netroots in his definition of what is a journalist?

Pam has this covered quite well. No point in my repeating it. Just go read it at her place.

I've read the legislation, and it's vague as hell, but sure sounds as if you're only a journalist if you write a blog and publish something in another non-online medium as well. Which might be news to the folks working at the Seattle Post online, the Washington Post online (which is not the same thing as the Washington Post), freelancers in general, and the blogs. Chuck Schumer, in the past, has been quite friendly to the blogs. It's not clear if someone on his staff screwed up, or what. But this is terribly troubling.