# I wish newspapers cited things better

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 1, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-newspapers-cited-things-better/729603 "2015-09-01T14:01:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-newspapers-cited-things-better/729603/1 "2015-09-01T14:01:11Z")

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This is a recurring frustration for me.  
I just read [this](http://www.wsj.com/articles/licenses-to-kill-1441063678) opinion piece, which references a report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers. I wanted to read the actual report, not the WSJ editorial staff’s summary of it. It wasn’t hard to find, but I did first go to the “Reports” section of the CoEA site, download the 2015 report, realize that’s not it, go to the “Fact Sheets & Reports” section, where I finally found it. Total elapsed time, despite shitty internet connection on my train, was not great. But still, it would have been nice of them to provide a link.

I run into this a lot with articles about recent science publications. “Published this week in Science Magazine.” Ok so maybe it doesn’t have a page number yet. But it has a DOI assigned, so give use that. It’s more useful than vol/issue/page, anyway. Nope. Gotta go dig for it ourselves.

By the way, if anyone wants to read “Occupational Licensing: A Framework for Policymakers”, it’s here: [https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/factsheets-reports](https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/factsheets-reports)  
Might make a decent GD topic, which is why I wanted to chase it down.

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-newspapers-cited-things-better/729603/2 "2015-09-04T12:27:32Z")

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I agree, they should.