News board requirements:
Choose the news of the day here by linking/excerpting a recent external news article (click "new topic" to start). Your post title (subject) must be the precise title of the linked story. Your opinions may only be in the replies/description.
The content (message portion) of your topic's FIRST post must be only a direct link with a maximum excerpt of the FIRST 25% (unedited) of the linked story but no comments by you, additional graphics, etc. No linking to site main pages, party/politician communications, registration-required, or web page host/Pr0 sites*. Linked stories must contain a date showing it was published or updated there the same, next, or previous day of the new topic linking to it (ET)**. Titles must match articles but you may edit out CAPS, punctuation & typos.
The "Op Editorial" board however is for standard user posts. See also the full rules.
* Youtube, MySpace, Blogspot, etc. or obscure Google PageRank zero (out of 10) sites may not be used as news sources. Other audio and video files may be fully link inserted if they are a news story as well may be an article's picture.
** For timeliness we measure the date on the article against US eastern time. If more than one date is indicated on the article we will use the internet publish date. If only the "magazine" date is indicated for weekly print publication articles it will be deemed published online 1 week prior.Last edited on Thu Apr 30th, 2009 09:32 am by admin
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