I would like to make a personal request that since this is a high profile topic, with a lot of controversy, that a special effort be made to solicit participation and questions from pro-Scientology community members wherever you might find them.
My general sense of things is that at a personal level, most of you would not be very much in agreement with or sympathetic to the claims of the Church of Scientology. If that's true, then it is important to try extra hard to look deep into your own heart in search of NPOV.
We are here to give information, not to guide people to conclusions. And even if you think poorly of the Church, you can understand why a firmly neutral interview of a critic, one which does not simply hand him softball questions, is actually stronger in the long run than allowing an easy one sided story to develop.
Jason Safoutin wrote:
The date of the Wikinews interview with Mark Bunker of XenuTV is scheduled to take place on Saturday February 16, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. (eastern time) or 1:00 p.m. (pacific time) (21:00 UTC) on the irc.freenode.net server in the channel #wikinews-interviews irc://newyork.ny.us.undernet.org/%23wikinews-interviews.
Jason (Dragonfire1024)
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