#PetPeeve:
This applies to lots of types of sites, but it particularly pisses me off with mainstream news organizations.
Many of them publish content to the web, but they absolutely refuse to actually link to anything else on the web. Any #links you happen to see in their #news #stories are only to other things on their own sites - category links, indices, search for a given name, etc.
A story about a contractor issuing a public letter to a city council about cost overruns on a project and pushing back against the council's misleading public statements? "Why on earth would you expect us to link from that story to any of the following?"
1) the background on the project in question, or the city's info page on it
2) the contractor's website
3) the contractor's publicly posted statement
4) the city's publicly posted statement that the contractor is replying to
5) hell, even the city's main site page
It's infuriating. Are you scared to link to other, relevant sites? Why, do you think the web's links are one-way streets and the visitor will never come back?
#ExternalLink #link #news #MainstreamNews #LegacyMedia #annoyance #annoying