Bloggers are now journalists?

Well, that's new to me.. How come the bloggers are not paid and have their articles on the evening news?

NSA: Blogs Are Media Too

In a recent directive to its employees, the National Security Agency explains that "the media," in its opinion, includes bloggers.
The document defines "media" as "any print, electronic, or broadcast outlet (including blogs) where information is made available to the general public."

NSA's point of view appears to bolster bloggers' standing as journalists. If anybody who can disseminate information -- that is, receive and broadcast a leak -- is a member of the media, then that means us bloggers are in the club. "I thnk that's becoming increasingly obvious," Kurt Opsahl, a blogging-rights expert and counsel to the California-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, told me. "There's no principled way to distinguish between the various media."

http://tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001444.php

http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/unauthorized.html