There are two reports today of citizen journalists being treated differently from the “credentialed” media.

In one, a citizen journalist with a camera is pushed and told to put the camera away by a congressional press secretary, even though the so-called “credentialed” press were running around in the congressional office all day with cameras.

In the second, a Democratic Party spokesman felt free to lie to a citizen journalist, but when asked the same question by The Washington Post took the “no comment” option rather than lie.

News sources are going to have to figure this out sooner or later. It’s a different journalistic world now and they’ve got to come to terms with it.