"...he's a utuber."

Journalist:

1
a
: a person engaged in journalism
especially : a writer or editor for a news medium
b
: a writer who aims at a mass audience
2
: a person who keeps a journal

Ed's videos are both written and edited by him. They are a journal of his research. They are actual journalism today. Propagandists lying to us for money aren't journalists. They're lying propagandists.

"You say that like I can't distinguish between corporate media and an independent journalist."

No, I don't. I am pointing out that Ed is a journalist, by the definition above. Note that definition doesn't mention education or degrees from universities. I'll add to that I have been paid to work as an experimental biologist for a state agency, and I do not have a degree in biology, or any degree of any kind from any university, at all. If I didn't need a degree to be a biologist, Ed doesn't need one to be a journalist. It is not the degree that determines what your job title is. It's what you do for work. When I was a logger one of the guys on my crew was a degreed radiologist. He didn't use his degree logging, and wasn't a radiologist. He was a logger. A logger with a degree in radiology.

I'm pretty sure you can tell the difference between Ed and a lying corporate propagandist. You may not have realized what Ed does is journalism, however, so I'm pointing out that Ed is a journalist.

None of the talking heads on CNN, MSNBC, or any of those weaponized propaganda delivery systems are journalists. They don't write what they say, and they don't edit the videos they appear in. They just read their lines as convincingly as they can, because that's what they're paid to do. They're weapons being used against us by criminals waging psychological, 5th generation war against us.