This is not my blog, I've never even visited it until today.
"Blog pimping" is when the owner of the blog uses an FR account to post his own writing, and especially when he posts only an excerpt to get clicks.
You have been on FR way too long not to know this.
Ok, perhaps ‘pimping’ wasn’t justified, however if each and every blog out there is automatically considered ‘news’, FR would be out of bandwidth in a hurry, true?