It's my opinion Wikinews must develop a way to
allow Fair Use images,
while at the same time encouraging contributors to use their camera
phones, digital cameras to provide freely-licensed graphics. The two
are not incompatible.
The problem is that there is not a lot we can do to "develop a way" to
use Fair Use images because for the most part, for Wikinews, fair use
does not apply in the same way that it does for wikipedia.
This is not something that we can solve.
English Wikipedia is in my opinion far too liberal about accepting fair
use images -- not from the point of view of pushing legal boundaries,
because I don't think we really do -- but from the point of view of
encouraging the development of free alternatives.
Wikinews should strongly and proudly resist going down this path.
--Jimbo