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by albertsun 5252 days ago
Why is this a link to Mashable when all the reporting work and original information is from the Wall Street Journal?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020457370457718...

5 comments

That's what professional blogging is - rewrite someone's article, hope you hit the news aggregators first.
I can see the Mashable article but I can't see the WSJ article (presumably because I'm not a subscriber).
That's odd. I can read the entire WSJ article, and I'm not a subscriber either. However, if I click links to other articles about half the time I only get the first paragraph.
As far as I remember the WSJ does some referrer magic that if you have the right referrer it will let you read the whole article. Otherwise you are greeted with a subscribe link. This has been my experience in the past.
Yeah, usually if you google the article's title and enter the site through a search engine then you can read the full article.
The article is being blocked by adblock. Pause adblock, and you should see the article.
Not everyone has a WSJ subscripton. I don't see the article when I click on the above link.
WSJ won't even show the title of the article at that link.

http://i.imgur.com/xhQrV.png

yeah, it only popped up half the time for me when I first saw the news, so I figured I'd post a decent "rewrite" that everyone could access. cheers!
Personally I feel if people like the WSJ want to stay out of the linked web we should just leave them there. We should not encourage "rewrites" either, thats not real journalism.