We are certainly are journalists, but unaccredited. That situation will change, firstly by the growing importance of user-created reviews of products and services, and secondly that politics is also in the 'advertising' business and they have to allow access to the Fourth Estate - which imho not only includes blogs and other online commentary, but also that it is just these online newcomers who are preserving the ancient role of being the checking and balancing Fourth Estate.

The new accreditation will not be thrown around freely, but I would have thought it fairly easy to demonstrate that ET would be a worthy candidate with a visible track record.

You can't be me, I'm taken

National rules on accredited press organisations. ET is not officially registered anywhere as a press org.

But I'll give the OECD accreditation procedure a try. It can do no worse than fail.