Journalism Rant

There's been a lot of talk lately of the potential effects on mainstream journalism by blogging. One improvement I'd suggest is linking to source material!!! It drives me nuts when a journalist posts a story about some survey, poll, website, research, or whatever and doesn't tell us where to find it!

To any journalists reading this (yeah, right), if you're going to summarize someone else's work, please tell your humble readers where to find the material in its entirety. Thank you.

Here's an example. Would it really have hurt to provide a link to Vote for Change or Rock for Life?

Funky Dung

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