Who Is A Journalist, And Who Gets To Decide? These are dangerous times for journalists, now labeled "soft targets" by violent extremists, and the profession is coming up with new ways to protect reporters. More bloggers and websites are trying to pass as legitimate sources of news, but are they? Who is a journalist, and who gets to decide? Listen now on Parsing the Press as journalists Sally Mauk and Gwen Florio discuss these issues. Sally Mauk Gwen, the country braced this past week for more violence on Inauguration Day, not just in D.C., but potentially in state capitals as well. And violence that thankfully never materialized.