Why do links in news stories only look for more news stories?

Question

Why do links in news stories only look for more news stories about the linked item, rather than send you to real reasources? For example, a link in a story about an earthquake in Peru is to the US Geological Survey. It would be much more useful to be able to click on the link and go to the USGS web site, rather than have a useless link that looks for more stories about the USGS. Similarly, a link for Peru or Lima in the story would be more useful for people if they would find non-news related items and web sites, rather than just other stories.

Answer 1

Most of the news agencies are trying to create the news instead of just reporting it. We are a polarized nation between the Bush haters and the ones who like him. The major newspapers around the country are leftists and many of the talk radio shows are rightists. Each have the ratings to contend with and will say or do anything for those ratings which translate into advertising dollars. Follow the money sonny.

Answer 2

There are far more Republican newspapers in our country today than Liberal newspapers. This is because most major newspapers have been bought up by huge Corporations and have benefited from the Corporate tax cuts and other benefits given them by the Bush Administration.



All you have to do is read the Editorial Section of any newspaper to find out what political affiliation it is associated with.



Contrary to what some people say, newspaper reporters do not create stories rather than report them. If they do, they risk exposure as did the famed reporter from the New York Times. There is plenty of material out there to write about. One does not have to invent material.



What people are complaining about is undoubtedly the columnists. A reporter simply reports the news. A columnist can freely write his interpretation of events. Many papers have Op Ed columnists, who write articles containing their opinion of events. Many people do not understand the distinction between the two types of writers.

Answer 3

There is definitely "spin" going on, but it's not by the left, which for the most part believe in letting everybody have a crack at telling the truth. What obstructs them, obstructs everybody. It's the right wing lunatic fringe that tries to control the media. They want ONLY their message to get out. (Propaganda, not news) Forvever has it been this way.



See: Nixon, Frank Zappa's "Dickie's such an ***hole", "Broadway the Hardway", culture reflects these hypocrisies in a wholesale fashion. This usually earns them emnity from that same Right Wing lunatic fringe, but it doesn't change the truth. Pay attention to who is trying to mute, defund and obliterate who. Moderates believe that everybody gets a voice. The right wing nut jobs believe in their "microphone" being the only one that gets plugged in.



A bigger conspiracy to me is why some people can vote on Iraq news stories and others can't. (It's not my browser, some stories come up just fine....)



I believe that voting is being manipulated in some way to benefit those that believe in fascist expansionist colonialism (also known as allowing us to bleed ourselves to death slowly so Al Queda or whoever doesn't actually have to work or die to defeat us) and to make this God forsaken War look better in Public Opinion Polls than it does.



I can vote on some stories just fine. The ability to access the voting mechnanism has been locked on some stories though.



Very creepy.



I would point out that I try to do try to vote on the quality of the journalism and not the "news" itself. But I don't think very many people do that. It's just my opinion but I believe that 90% of all voting is "shoot the messenger" no matter what the news being reported actually is........



The Pentagon calls it (they invented it but the Internet has exploited it) "Incestuous Amplification". I.E., groups of people clump together and refine ever more "fact absent"

points of view. It can affect both sides, but right now the right wing is riddled with it.