Mainstream News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites

Hey guys this is Vicky and I found this article that I thought was pretty interesting if your looking at the business side of media. Do you think that news websites will benefit, as they hope, from including links to other news sites on their pages? If you were at one news website and saw a link to another website that gave you more information, would you continue to go back to the original site for other stories? I think that from a competition viewpoint this could be very good if many of the news websites started to do this, readers would be able to decide which news site allows for the most access to the most amount of information. I thought that the comment made in the article by Jeff Jarvis, a blogger who directs the Graduate School of Journalism's new-media program at the City University of New York, was very interesting, "Link unto others’ good stuff as you would have them link unto your good stuff,' he proposed in June. His 'Golden Rule of Links' for journalists." Do you think that this would actually happen? Or do you think that competition would get in the way of good journalism?