Maybe Fareed Zakaria Should Be Punished With Aggregation Duty: A dose of web journalism could give Zakaria a more rigorous sourcing ethos: Aggregation. It's the bane of old-school journalists who hate that some web kids out there take their hard-won reporting and wise analysis and throw it into content-management systems with a new byline on top. (They particularly hate the word "content," and love to scarequote it.) And I understand that. If you put in a lot of work, you want people to see it. To the victor, go the spoils, etc….
"As I write explicitly [in the book], this is not an academic work where everything has to be acknowledged and footnoted," his said. The book contains "hundreds" of comments and quotes that aren't attributed because doing so, in context, would "interrupt the flow for the reader," he said….
Let's put aside the assertion that people do not attribute quotes they did not hear with their own ears…. "On the web, we're a lot of things, but you would never lift a quote and not provide a link or a source. It's just bizarre," Greenfield said to me. "Maybe it has to do with the idea that you would so obviously be caught, but it's also just how the job works."… [W]e're training our aggregators to recognize the value in other people's work (and brands). We're telling them, "You're as good as the people you link to."