What is this source. How does one “do a journalism?”
The author first raised this question in their forums and then email Mozilla PR directly.
I did a journalism
Indeed.
What if one ‘did’ 5 journalisms?
[ESL students: ‘journalism’, like ‘traffic’ and ‘mail’, aren’t words that are themselves broken into quantities, and so aren’t pluralized. ‘5 traffics’ is nonsense, like ‘a traffic’, and will make people frown. Secondly, ‘doing journalism’, while better, is still lazy for verbs like ‘literally’ is lazy for adverbs]
it’s a manner of speech used jokingly. similar to how someone “does an oopsie” where, you might find, “an oopsie” isn’t a specific activity that someone performs.
and hey, figurative “literally” was good enough for Joyce and Dickens.
Journalism is no place for jokes. This isn’t the only ungrammatical language in the article. If they want to be taken seriously, a good proofreader is essential. Otherwise, they’ll be perceived as you suggest: a joke.
I don’t think their goal is to become the next Reuters.
as far as I can tell, the articles on the website are posted by one (1) person, and they’re free to express themselves in whatever way the want.besides, for me at least, the phrase carries a specific meaning. it’s a self-deprecating quip, an acknowledgment that what they did wasn’t some super serious journalistic work, given that it mostly comprised of sending Mozilla an email, and doesn’t warrant using something that would indicate more extensive journalistic work like “I did some digging” or “I investigated”.
