Journalists are, or ought to be, the public's hired guns sent out to collect information, question it, verify it and distil it to what is important and true. This takes time and skill, and is the only thing a journalist does that marks him or her out as a professional. It's also the reason why anyone would choose well-known newspaper's website over an unknown blog.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Journalists are, or ought to be, the public's hired guns sent out to collect information, question it, verify it and distil it to what is important and true. This takes time and skill, and is the only thing a journalist does that marks him or her out as a professional. It's also the reason why anyone would choose well-known newspaper's website over an unknown blog." in the context of ""Harold Evans, Guido Fawkes, Heather Brookes and Bild on journalism and the public interest" Press Gazette (27 September 2011)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.