Some clarifications -- I own the Pulaski County Daily News. There are two local message boards in our county which have cited articles for years by copying the lead paragraphs with a link to the full article, and at this point I either post the articles on those message boards myself or have someone else do it for me.
I've been a registered member of Free Republic for about half a decade and I sometimes post the lead paragraphs of articles here, in the same format as the two local websites, if I think they would be of interest to a broader non-local readership, either due to military issues or due to major disasters such as what's happening with the Missouri National Guard mobilization to help Joplin.
Unlike many in the media, I'm a conservative. In fact, I'm a Reagan Republican and was campaigning for Reagan back in 1980 when he was considered unelectable by much of the Republican leadership. The last thing I want to do is tell conservative websites like Free Republic that they can't use the full text of news articles. In other words, using lead paragraphs with a link is a preference, not a requirement.
However, we have to deal with economic realities of a capitalist economy, and if we are going to document readership to advertisers, we need to back up readership claims with real statistics. I don't think it's too much to ask that people who are interested in the first few paragraphs of an article click a link to read the full article so we can report the number of readers to our advertisers.
(In that context, I'd better add that the web software we use doesn't even make it possible to identify individual readers. Since we're the most-read civilian newspaper outside Fort Leonard Wood, a large Army installation, a major percentage of our readers are active duty military or their families. I would never dream of reporting anything beyond aggregate numbers -- i.e., how many people have read each article, how many people visited the website on specific days and months, and how many of them had Missouri-based IP addresses versus non-local IPs.)
I trust that on a conservative website like Free Republic which values the military and values free enterprise, those reasons will be understandable.
Then there exist no impediments to your posting of the full content here.
Unless you are only here in a commercial capacity.
Are you only here in a commercial capacity?
Oh, wait ..... You ~NEVER~ comment on any threads other than you own, do you?
You only show up to pimp you blog and then skeedaddle.
If it wasn't for the chance to hawk you wares, we'd never know you existed, now would we?