:Maybe it wasn't a good idea to say it out loud, but that's not the sort of comment that would start a flame war. If I said the same thing about an on-wiki project, maybe it would get heated, but the vast majority of Wikipedians don't really care about Wikinews. As far as Wikinews goes towards the "goal of bringing free information to the world", I'd have to say it's not an explicit failure but it's towards the low end in quality out of many free to access news services. Because everything has to be current, rather than Wikipedia which can take years to nurture articles, the quality is amlost always going to be an issue. In the end, it's not worth visiting regularly for someone like me who consumes high quality news in high volumes, so I'll stick to other free online access sites, like the New York Times. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear, but I stand by it.