I can’t help but think that if news organizations put a tenth of the amount of effort into external linking that they do into re-reporting other people’s stories, we’d have a much more vibrant and useful news culture.

Felix Salmon
As he also notes, the real nut is that when they re-report each other, they tend to do it very, very poorly. For some reason, though, the MSM is categorically opposed to providing a link, even when the story is about a specific website.