In an intersection of well intended laws and unintended consequences, Oregon's Government Ethics Commission has created a debate about what constitutes a real journalist. Once again, we're debating who is a real journalist, and who is not. The result of this determination could have much greater impact than anyone realizes. According to a report in The Oregonian (allegedly a real newspaper),

Last week, The Oregonian newspaper announced that it was cutting print circulation to 4 days a week, laying off most of its staff, and forming a new digital news company.  In a mostly tacit, but sometimes explicit admission that print media is facing its demise, the oldest newspaper on the West Coast confirmed that the future is in digital publishing.

As I've written before, the Washington DC Metro is not my favorite form of transportation.   Indeed, I dream of the day when I have a job with a driver who will daily pick me up at my apartment and deposit me at work.  Often I have to take a second to collect myself outside our building to suppress the anger that wells up during the course of my ride each day.  The ride for which I pay ever increasing fares in an ever more cramped car where actual air temperatures have no bearing on the use of heat or AC.  Suffice it to say, we have a swell system.