Many bloggers now think of themselves as “journalists.” Blogger and journalist Catherine Seipp says, “Not so fast.”

I’m a journalist first and blogger second, so I’ve never joined that reflexive “down-with-the-mainstream-media” cheer I often hear from the blogosphere. Noodling about the antics of your kittycat, or what you had for breakfast, or how brilliant your prose — even though it gets almost no hits — does not make you a journalist. (Or even a writer, for that matter. Sorry.)