I’m aware that someone is using FR to promote his own writing as part of a business model.
As opposed to FR using other people’s writing to support their business model?
Face it, crosslinking is the nature of the web. And why brand politically biased MSM paid writing as worthy of excerpts, and citizen writing unworthy? Ultimately you have no moral high ground. The only real thing in play is that the MSM has the money to sue for non-excerption, while a blogger does not. But clicks at how a blogger is paid, and why shouldn’t they be paid for their work, especially since it doesn’t hurt FR? You act like the very existence of bloggers is somehow shameful, when precisely the opposite is true.