Update: Ha, Ha…News.com now updates the story and links to Battele’s site…
Well, fill in the blanks..that applies to any big, mainstream news site…John Battelle’s blog broke the story about Yahoo buying FareChase..
News.com picks up the story and where does it credit Battelle: in the last line of the story, without a link to the site or the story. And, of course, this is not the first example…
I had a tiff with News.com people once, and they said that when they were small, and had just started, they had to endure the same thing from the likes of WSJ and NYT. In effect, they told me: suck it up…
Other journo-bloggers like Om Malik and Glenn Fleishman have suffered same fate at the hand of bigger news site…
Time big media cleaned up its crediting policy. I link to all the stories first…that’s my promise of crediting. My whole locus standi is to send readers to other sites…
As people know, I eat journalists for my late night snack, and anyone who does that to me will hear it loud and clear…and many have. If you can’t link, you stink…
Enough for a Friday evening rant…
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