“He is an opportunist, he releases what he gets, but he is no journalist.”
First of all, who should decide who qualifies as a journalist? The government? The New York Times? You?
Secondly, even if he’s not a journalist, I don’t remember reading in the Constitution that freedom of the press is limited to a certain class of credentialed individuals. I have as much freedom of the press as Willy Hearst did, and I don’t take kindly to anyone suggesting that I don’t.
Freedom of the press and trafficking in stolen information are two different items. You may have the freedom to ‘bear arms’ but you don’t have the freedom to steal a gun and protect your position of that under the 2nd Amendment. You may have the freedom of religion but you don’t have the freedom to steal vestments of a church and use them for your own religious practice.
Let’s put it this way, do I have Constitutional protections to take your personal information and publish it claiming protection as a journalist?