[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials

Fri Nov 11 19:01:47 UTC 2005

> So an organization cannot, without permission of government-sanctioned 
> bodies, send people to observe and report on events?  We're not talking 
> about official government press passes here (the U.S. analog is 
> state-issued passes), simply a piece of paper that indicates the person 
> in question has the sanction of Wikinews to report on their behalf.  
> People are free to ignore that piece of paper of course, and demand 
> something government-issued, but are you saying that the mere act of 
> issuing that piece of paper is illegal, 

I am just saying that not only can it be illegal, but also that it will 
certainly engage the liability of the foundation.

Unions accreditating journalists will certainly be mad at it (as in 
France), and it would picture the foundation as a liable editor rather 
as a not-liable publisher.