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Re:Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse by Steko on Saturday August 16, 2014 @02:51AM (#8185576)
Not linking to a company described in a news article can be annoying but it's not always some casino mentality code they have against outlinking to maximize internal pageviews -- in many cases it's also journalism trying to hold onto some standards of not just being a shill for the interview subject.
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Re:Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse by TeMPOraL on Saturday August 16, 2014 @09:35AM (#8186152)
Not linking to a company described requires a very conscious effort. It's obvious that when you want to tell people "hey, look at X", you want to point people towards X somehow. If you don't do this, then it means you have some ulterior motive for not doing that.
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Re:Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse by Zikes on Saturday August 16, 2014 @03:14AM (#8185605)
On Wikipedia they call it citing sources. Journalism would certainly do very well to practice that.
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Re:Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse by davidgerard on Saturday August 16, 2014 @05:58AM (#8185805)
The BBC somehow survives now that it's actually linking to papers referenced, entities discussed in the article, etc.
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Re:Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse by lclarkmichalek on Saturday August 16, 2014 @07:19AM (#8185906)
Well being state funded probably helps in that regard
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Re:Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse by davidgerard on Saturday August 16, 2014 @07:56AM (#8185964)
I'd think that would work against the claim being asserted - that external links affect neutrality - given how closely people watch the BBC for any possible bias and berate it for assumed bias (with or without cause).
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