How News Media Failed on the Web

Here's where news-media failed in their transition to the web: they failed utterly to embrace the nature of the web — links. Anytime a news article has links, they are, without fail, internal links to the site's own articles, writeups or descriptions. They use links solely to drive traffic to their own pages. So you'll never see a link out to the source site, or even to Wikipedia. An example: I'm…