Fair enough. I don’t want to be involved, it’s an internal spat within the NUJ, I merely commented as it is in the public domain. As for evidence, it’s generally lacking all round.

I was merely pointing out that Carrie has used other names for writing besides her own.

Well, it’s only fair to point out that you’re commenting anonymously! If you are going to criticize, will you let us know who you are? Also, I think McIntyre and Twomey have made it clear that neither of them is Paul Campbell. If you have evidence to the contrary, please provide it.

What rubbish Carrie writes. She used a cover name when writing for Slugger O’Toole and again for the Long Kesh site. Paul Campbell could easily be another cover for either of the blog owners. There’s no reason for anyone to fear the newspaper.

You’re right—I’m not in a position to make a judgment! That’s the point. Anyway …

Hi Ted,

I don’t think you or anyone else is in any position to make any judgement about whether we are justified or not in a scenario you are making assumptions about.

The bottom line is that you don’t know, and given the threat that exists, any kind of information you seek to give you a sense of anything is not going to be forthcoming.

Suffice to say, just because Noel doesn’t know Paul doesn’t mean anything. We know Paul and we are quite happy to carry his work. It bears repeating, if the only thing being challenged about his article is his by-line, we are confident we are carrying the burden of publication just fine.

We can at least agree that at this point, we’ve exhausted this!

Take care

Thanks, Carrie. I think we’ve probably exhausted this, but I do think the burden is on you and that you’ve failed to carry it. Is “Paul Campbell” an Irish News journalist who fears for his job? Is he just sensitive about being called names? That’s the kind of information I would want to have in order to judge whether you were justified in using a pseudonym. But I guess we will have to agree to disagree about this.