The point is that I pay for the NYT - in part, because they do so many "digital" things right compared to other newspapers - and yet so often they refuse to do the absolute bare minimum of hyperlinking.
That's really not the point. The point is that many legacy media outlets deliberately avoid putting hyperlinks in their stories because they care about keeping people onsite more than they do about fully informing them. It's very typical for news outlets to report on criminal indictments without providing any link to the charging documents, for example, likewise with public reports.
Steam Store page for the Backyard Sports franchise, with links to the new/reboot game and the patched/updated classics:
https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/backyardsports
If only there were ways to look up the things you wanted to know from it.
The point is that I pay for the NYT - in part, because they do so many "digital" things right compared to other newspapers - and yet so often they refuse to do the absolute bare minimum of hyperlinking.
Like, yeah, no duh - I can use Google.
That's really not the point. The point is that many legacy media outlets deliberately avoid putting hyperlinks in their stories because they care about keeping people onsite more than they do about fully informing them. It's very typical for news outlets to report on criminal indictments without providing any link to the charging documents, for example, likewise with public reports.
Not anymore, now you just get an AI overview, followed by SEO slop results.