Very much in the style of Rolling Stone; an unashamedly rebellious editorial. I rate low on a fairness scale because there is virtually no "right to reply" to what are damning allegations.
Brian McNeil
Member (since December 2009)I've been a contributor on English Wikinews (http://en.wikinews.org) for around five years. Other than this, I have no formal journalistic background. My studies and work for the last 20 years has been as a Systems Analyst working on large IT systems, ex. Billing, Enterprise Resource Planning.
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Raised member of Scottish Episcopal Church. Now self-identify as "non-theistic Buddhist".
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Brian posted this story - Jan 13, 2010
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For context from any Wikinews report there are generally links to appropriate Wikipedia articles. In this case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icesave_dispute
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Brian posted this story - Dec 12, 2009
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Brian posted this story - Dec 12, 2009
Brian reviewed this story - Dec 12, 2009
The emails have been examined critically, not as the sceptics did, searching for any straw suggesting malfeasance.
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Strike ballot to go ahead despite British Telecom's belated new pay offer
I’m claiming this one. And, note there’s actually nothing else coming up on it when searching NewsTrust.
As far as trying to be more informative about what’s coming…
"Any sustained action by CWU members in BT’s ... More »