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You should also take into account that by the time an article makes it here there are usually multiple copies of it from other news providers. WSJ rarely has exclusive articles so it makes no sense to provide a link to WSJ when the exact same article is on some other site.

The only unique pieces are usually op-eds which usually have similar articles on other popular publications as well.




This is in no way accurate. I've done this type of search almost every day in the last couple of weeks and my success rate is less than 50%. For example the Snapchat article on the IPO and voting rights did find any articles that were more than the WSJ headline.


To counter this point, when the WSJ does actually have an exclusive story or is the first to break it, we ought to recognize that. Rewarding blogspam copycats is a very bad policy.




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