Journalist vs Pamphleteer - What's the difference?
journalist | pamphleteer |
(originally) The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.
One whose occupation or is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.
A reporter, who professionally does living reporting on news and current events.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= a writer or publisher of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist
* 1713 : Jonathan Swift, The Journal to Stella
* 1891 : Oscar Wilde, Intentions
As nouns the difference between journalist and pamphleteer
is that journalist is (originally) the keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly while pamphleteer is a writer or publisher of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist.As a verb pamphleteer is
to publish and distribute pamphlets as a form of propaganda.journalist
English
(wikipedia journalist)Noun
(en noun)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
pamphleteer
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Commons are very slow in bringing in their Bill to limit the press, and the pamphleteers make good use of their time; for there come out three or four every day.
- but Charles Reade, an artist, a scholar, a man with a true sense of beauty, raging and roaring over the abuses of contemporary life like a common pamphleteer or a sensational journalist, is really a sight for the angels to weep over.