Comment Re:Death of Clickbait Journalism is A Good Thing (Score 1) 128
Of course his subscribers were all part of the ruling class in Britain.
So he was acting not as part of the press. Not a journalist reporting news to the public, but a private researcher collecting news / recent events information for an elite audience.
there is nothing that requires reporting to be done on a web page available to everyone
There is nothing that dictates a specific medium, but if the reporting is limited to small audience and carries a high cost for access, and is therefore not intended to be publicly disseminated / not generally accessible or in distribution, then that is more like private reporting - would be not a press activity and not journalism.
It is the public press in wide distribution that early founders realized is so critical and vital towards the possibility of the people staying free, and ensuring government remains for the people. The channel would be ineffective if only a chosen handful of people can even read what is published and understand what events are truly happening.