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> They squinted at the business card in a plastic sleeve that I was passing off as a press credential

If you are passing off a business card as fake press credentials, you aren’t a real journalist.

I’m not sure what other credentials an American journalist would have. Freedom of the press means everyone can be a journalist.

For some reason a lot of people think you can't be a journalist unless a corporation has blessed you. It's strange.

The corporate press went out of their way to solidify this notion. Because of course.