I think that Linking to other news sources is a great change for mainstream news organizations. Their stories will become more credible because people will be able to link to the sources that are mentioned. Although this will most likely give more web traffic and credibility to other news sources, this will not stop people from going to their preferred news organizations. According to Brian Stelter's article on this phenomenon, linking to other site’s will actually benefit all news organizations sites. The more links to other sites the more those sites will link you on their sites. It’s all a win-win situation for all sides.
Wire serves like the Associated Press will not die out because of linking. With linking, news is coming from everywhere, so the AP will be the ones who actually have the correct facts. Although these news organizations are making efforts to link to many sites, some of these sites may not have all the facts. An example is when I go on any news organization’s website to find information on something. I can click on many different links but they all say the same things, and I eventually end up going in circles. As mentioned in Stelter’s article many of these news organizations have been linking for years. That is why they are all becoming interconnected through one another, and are able to find one news organization through another.
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What about the small-town newspapers' Web sites...they have the correct facts, too. Should we not link to that instead of AP?
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