[Revel]

The day FR no longer posts any full text articles...It will not be FR anymore...Just a chat room. Excerpts are not much use for research purposes. One of the real reasons why FR is so valuable is that the material is always there. No one can hide the truth. There is so much information posted here that could never be found again anywhere else. That includes the original source in many cases.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Right!

[Triple Word Score]

This editor is capable of writing a reasonable, coherent, non-threatening response when he discovers something that challenges his paper's policy on something. So, why do we not simply point out that if we merely link to something, it is often changed on us, and that is the value of posting the entire article rather than excerpting? Ask him to commit to always keeping the original article available for everything his paper publishes, even if he must retract, change, or withdraw something. This would be real accountability and it could start with any paper.

It seems to me a reasonable thing to ask of a publisher who will not permit posting of a full article on another site. Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to constantly challenge the veracity of the fourth estate? At the moment I think most of us rate journalism well below car sales as a trustworthy field. Getting the bias out isn't nearly as important as getting the urge to coverup out.