Link out

Some web-based journalism really bugs me.

AutoExpress.co.uk has an interesting story entitled Revealed: Missing MGs. The article is short and explicitly mentions a website. In fact the website is the whole reason for being for this article.

Yet they don't link to the website in the article. Not even a text-URL.

Why is this? Do they not understand web-based media at all? Do they think they are making a "sticky" site by not allowing external links? I had to use Google to find the website they talk about but don't link to.

I won't go back to a site that does such practices.