You wouldn't if the government got out of the business of doing that. If the industry were smart enough—and it hasn't shown that it is to date—all the sectors, the broadcasting sector and the print sector, would form a national association, and they would decide who is a journalist in the same fashion that medical societies decide who is a doctor and legal societies decide who is a lawyer. They would decide, because the government has absolutely no business, through whatever means, deciding what a journalist is.
Industry and the government could get themselves out of that problem by having a proper national organization, and they could fight it out there. You wouldn't have to get involved. You'd just say, “Okay, where's your list?”