Forcing Hari to link only shows up how much the rest of the news industry doesn’t
A great piece by Martin Belam aka @currybet on Johann Hari’s links in his latest GQ column. Adam Tinworth aka @adders echoed the view that mainstream media is afraid to link. I’ve experienced it in many workplaces (apart from Journalism.co.uk where linking was positively encouraged but then it is a web-focused organisation) because journalists/editors who don’t understand how the web works see links as “taking readers away” rather than giving authority to websites/pages.
