McClatchy reporter David Lightman, one of the reporters who posts to McClatchy's "Planet Washington" blog, doesn't get one of the cardinal rules of blogging -- if you blog about a published article or transcript, link to it.
Friday, Lightman posted a snarky piece entitled, "Bush says he did not "sell his soul". It's about an interview Bush conducted at the White House with his sister, Doro Bush Koch. Lightman lifts a sentence out of the interview and comes close to mocking Bush -- but he doesn't link to the transcript so readers could evaluate the statement in context.
I would never blog about an interview -- or lift statements from an interview -- without linking to the entire thing. That's a simple matter of showing respect to my readers. Does Lightman think he is the gatekeeper?
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Click here to read the full Bush interview.
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