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Whether your are an enthusiastic supporter of the digital age as it heralds the replacement of top-down journalism with bottom-up journalism, or whether you remain a stubborn believer in the virtues of journalists as information gatekeepers, you are not the cause of the current calamity.

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  1. adjective Used as a modifier before a noun: your boots; your accomplishments.
  2. adjective A person's; one's: The light switch is on your right.
  3. adjective Informal Used with little or no sense of possession to indicate a type familiar to the listener: your basic three-story frame house.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English ēower, genitive of , ye; see you.

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  1. (a) from Middle English your, ʒour, ʒoure, ʒure, iour, eower, from Anglo-Saxon eówer (= Old Saxon iuwar = Old High German iuwer = Gothic (Moesogothic) izwara), genitive of (dative accusative eów), you: see ye, you. (b) from Middle English your, ʒour, ʒoure, ʒowre, iour, ower, our, eoure, eowre, eower, from Anglo-Saxon eówer = Old Saxon iuwar, iuwa = OFries. iuwe, etc., = Gothic (Moesogothic) izwar, possessive pron.: see (a), above.
 

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