Posted on 10/28/2012 9:26:10 AM PDT by DeprogramLiberalism
While I have your attention, can I ask you a question. Would you accept a line by line critique of a liberal journalist's column as within copyright fair use? Example:
Journalist: (Quote from his article - usually one to a few sentences.)
Me: (Critique of the previous quote.)
(Etc. throughout the article.)
I call this "Column Dissections". Critiquing is usually considered fair use, but I would like to know FR's view of this before I post any of these. Here are a couple of examples: Liberal Media Bias Defending Liberal Media Bias and Social Justice Versus Liberty
And one more thing: How large is too large to post the whole thing? Many of my best posts are research related, not news related, and therefore sometimes tend to be on the large size compared to average news related blog posts. The Column Dissections posts can get rather large as well. Can you give me a rule of thumb?
And one last thing: Since you found my excerpt acceptable, and I have shown good faith by inquiring of proper etiquette, could you please remove the pimpmyblog from the KEYWORDS?
Thank you.
For an article being posted, probably about 2 or three times what you included in this post would work.
If a complete article can be posted that is a bit larger than that, the whole text should be posted.
For your “dissections,” the article on which you are commenting needs to be hot-linked, and no more than 1/2 posted here at Free Republic to conform to our necessary fair use excerpting rules.
(Also continue to hot-link urls contained within your articles)
We reserve the right to amend the above at any time...
Trust me, post the whole thing. You will be pleasantly surprised how many FReepers will click to see the original site if they like what they see.
Thank you for your clear answers and removing the KEYWORD.
I think I’ll follow the guidance of Admin Moderator, but thanks for your encouragement.
Your studious and polite interaction on this thread just got your blog a hit from houeto. Good work there. Very good.
Thank you.
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