No matter how they're viewed at home, the BBC remains in my view the international gold standard for news, information,
and entertainment. God bless'em. And could you imagine any other "news organisation" (a.k.a. pernicious purveyors of
distracting deceits) going so far as to require ".. inline links must go to primary sources only– eg scientific journal
article or policy report .. " in their new linking guidelines?
You can find a brilliant argument for why this might be a good idea in Ben Goldacre's book
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks which I've recently read and cannot recommend too highly
for anyone with half a brain.