For those who're IRC regulars you might have noticed I've appended a little
bit to the #wikinews topic - a link to the Paul Foot Award which I picked up
from the UK's famous (or should I say infamous) Private Eye magazine.
The link is
http://tinyurl.com/jr3og and everyone - particularly our UK
contributors - should read up on this. The award may have fine-print
constraints that only people based in the UK can apply, but that doesn't
disallow our coverage that we submit being on a more global, or possibly
European, subject.
Where I was - selfishly - thinking I could get into this was in the EU
copyright extension stuff. After Michael and I attended the EFF/ORG party
and got a damn good interview, I tried to get a few people to talk to us -
no joy. If you can think of parties we could possibly get statements from
this would be terrific. I am going to have another go at getting a response
from the commissioner responsible and Sir Paul McCartney's rights management
company. The hook of trying to win the Paul Foot Award might make them more
sympathetic about talking to us.
If you have any other ideas about any topic we could do
campaigning/investigative journalism on then speak up now! Campaigning might
be out of the question due to [[WN:NPOV]], but investigative is something we
do well when we put ourselves to it. If anyone suggests Scientology, they
will be left going, "mummy, mummy! why do I keep walking in circles?"
because I will nail one of their feet to the ground.
Brian McNeil