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"You dig me up a good yarn, brother, and I'll kiss you." -- Garry Dean, hard-boiled newshawk, "Newspaper reporters are like dicks. Private dicks. Yeah, I know everyone loves the private investigator. But I look at it this way: A newspaperman is a P.I. who can spell." -- Charles Aesop Farnsworth, editor, River City Blade.
So, for the purpose of this site, let's say that a journalist who could credibly come to investigate crime or otherwise make like a detective as a regular part of their job will be considered a private eye; whereas those who just happen to be journalists and end up investigating crime do not. For example, a crime or political reporter who looks into, say, a political scandal or a suspicious death, would qualify; the gardening columnist who stumbles over a body in the vicar's rose garden does not. Not quite sure what I'm getting at? Check out the following newsroom eyes, all of whom I think qualify... JOURNALISTS
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