Is linking just polite, or is it a core value of journalism?(gigaom.com)

18 pointsby ___Calv_Dee___14년 전4 comments

Is linking just polite, or is it a core value of journalism?

http://gigaom.com/2012/02/25/is-linking-just-polite-or-is-it-a-core-value-of-journalism/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29

3 comments

rickmb14년 전

I stopped caring a long time ago what journalists do amongst each other. Real journalists, the ones that dig until they find the truth, even if it is politically inconvenient, have become so rare that the word "journalism" has lost its meaning.

All that matters to me is respect to your readers.

I consider any author who doesn't link to their sources untrustworthy. Doubly so if the author claims to be a journalist. It's like someone standing in front of you with their hands demonstratively behind their backs saying: "no, I'm not hiding anything, really, but I'm not showing you my hands because I'm a journalist". Gimme a fucking break.

If there has to be a debate whether not behaving like a little child is a core value of journalism, than journalism is truly dead.

Palomides14년 전

surely good ethics for any sort of writing is to cite your sources; a link is simply the web-appropriate way to do that

___Calv_Dee___14년 전

I think that "web-appropriate" is actually becoming the "appropriate" way to do things in the publishing realm. The massive shift to web-based content is certain to yield the deprecation of such a term.

Dylan1680714년 전

I like and agree with the comparison of links to citations. And you cite credible sources that bring factual weight to your text, not third party news sites that aren't verified.