Comments on: Where’s the link? http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/19/wheres-the-link/ A world for online journalists. Come all ye scribes, artists and innovators of the press. Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:54:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Danny Sanchez http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/19/wheres-the-link/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Danny Sanchez Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:36:18 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/19/wheres-the-link/#comment-41 It seems that a combination of thick-headedness and lack of attention to detail are at fault in situations like this. If an AP story is generated by the wire feed automatically, are producers going to duplicate the story just to put in a link? Also, one could make an argument to not link to a direct competitor. But in this case, I'm sure the big national sites are not going to be losing readers to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. It seems that a combination of thick-headedness and lack of attention to detail are at fault in situations like this. If an AP story is generated by the wire feed automatically, are producers going to duplicate the story just to put in a link?

Also, one could make an argument to not link to a direct competitor. But in this case, I’m sure the big national sites are not going to be losing readers to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

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Thanks for fighting this battle.
I view the “missing links” issue as both an ethical failure and a flawed business tactic. It’s beyond me why so many publications fall short in this area.

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