Who Is a Journalist?

I reckon I should have had this as my first post, but I think it'll do right now...ha ha.

My answer to the question "Who is a journalist?" is a simple one, really. In my opinion, a journalist is simply one who seeks to inform another of what is going on/wants to have their information read. I know it's a vague answer, but it's also a very inclusive answer. It makes all of us journalists right here, right now.
Ponder on this question: Would any of us ever write anything if we did not think someone else would read it? What would be the point. This is blatantly obvious when we consider all the different aspects of media, but even writing on a personal level follows this logic, I believe. Writing a journal or diary, for instance, may seem like writing for the sake of writing, nothing more. HOWEVAH, we know that someone out there will read it one day: our descendants, our future selves, our nosy siblings or parents, etc. Whether we want to or not, we are informing them. They get to read all about how our parents didn't understand, that teachers were vampires, and that we were madly in love with a handful of different people at varying stages of our senior year of high school. For me that is why we write, consciously or subconsciously. Think of those who wrote the Scriptures. Clearly, Mormon had seen our day and knew he was writing/abridging for us, so that motivated him to do what he did. This applies to all writers of scripture, and then some. Even though something like the Song of Solomon isn't inspired writing, Solomon (or whoever wrote it) clearly wanted SOMEONE to read it, even if it was just the love(s) of his life. He didn't know it would get put in the Bible, but he knew it would be put in the hands of someone who would enjoy it.
Brining this back to us, the reason we write on this blog is so that someone else will read it and be informed (and give us credit, right Dr. Cressman?) The reason we want to go into journalism is because we want to inform others, through print or over the airwaves, of what is going on in the world around them. Whether we want to inform others for money or satisfaction is not as important as the fact that we want to be journalists so that we can inform others.
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.