Reply #13: hyperlinking [View All]

[Trillo]

I noted Freeberg's comment where he mentions how it's "taboo" for the MSM to link back to bloggers when MSM later runs a story similar to a blogger's. That certainly seems the history as I recall it, even predating the advent of WebLogs. For years it seemed AP was link challenged, almost as if they didn't know what hyperlinks were, kind of like they were computer illiterate. Some years later, they started using links, but only to reference their own sites and their other content. It seems others noticed this as well.

"headline and lede" is the key to their umbrage? It seems they're not as computer challenged as their refusal to link to other non-affiliates lead others to believe. They were only pretending stupidity for all those years?

By the way, "lede" is not in Random-House Webster's V3.0 unabridged. Is it really a word? I presume its a reference to the first paragraph, but presumptions are wrong at times. Maybe it means first several paragraphs. It doesn't seem to be English, is it Latin?