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  • 8.1 Does the staff have any conflicts of interest I should be aware of?

  • Punknews is run by volunteer music fans, but since everyone (we hope) is leading a full life away from their computers that offline-reality often bumps up against our online world. Here's what you should know:

    Aubin Paul is a third owner of Punknews Records, which is distributed by Epitaph Records. He also contributes a distillation of the Punknews news coverage to AMP Magazine. Aubin does various IT work for a number of clients. He's also from Toronto, where the army has to unbury them from snowstorms that the rest of Canada wouldn't so much as blink at, and as a result strives to keep the military happy.

    Adam White is a third owner of Punknews Records, which is distributed by Epitaph Records. He works in IT, and has been known to slant his punk news in a way that makes you want to purchase consulting services. Being from Niagara Falls, Adam suffers from a psychosis in which the War of 1812 never ended, and as such gives what's probably an unfair amount of coverage to Canadian bands that only he cares about. He's also in love with Neko Case, but she won't return his calls. A religious devotion to Neil Young is rumoured.

    Justin August has been known to do some contract work for Fat Wreck Chords. He's also a filthy bearded hippy, and as such his defacto anti-hippy bias is weaker than the rest of the staff. He's also in love with Jolie Holland, and if memory serves, Nina Simone.

    Brian Shultz is fairly conflict free, but wears a camouflage choo-choo train hat a fair bit, so there's something he must be hiding from us.

    Meg Reinecker collects a paycheck from Hot Topic, but is fairly low in the food chain and as such has no say in their weapons manufacturing wing nor their biological warfare unit.