[Windflier]

...posters who admit in their 1st response that they didnt read the entire article before posting...

I've always thought that was an absurd expectation. The average reader is looking for a compact, condensed delivery of the most salient facts of a story. Few have the patience or inclination to wade through thousands of words of extraneous fluff and filler, just to root out the essential nuggets of real news within.

A well crafted headline and a carefully selected excerpt will generally give any well read person enough information to form and voice a base opinion.

[Wonder Warthog]

Ditto all those thoughts. The excerpt should be a summary of the most important ideas in the excerpted article, not a cut and pasted paragraph.

[Jacquerie]

<>A well crafted headline and a carefully selected excerpt will generally give any well read person enough information to form and voice a base opinion.<>