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Public Protests NPR Link Policy

People who'd like to link to NPR can do so easily by filling out the online form -- it asks for a linker's name, e-mail address, physical address, phone number, information about the linking site, how long the link will remain on the site, the "proposed wording of the link and accompanying text," the U.S. state in which the linking site is incorporated and if it's a commercial site.

Of course, credit where credit due. A big round of applause for Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing for making this public, or at least blogging it out there.

And even in this, the hypocrisy of NPR oozes out:

It isn't only commercial activity that concerns NPR. Asked if a link from someone's noncommercial homepage would bother the company, Dvorkin [Jeffrey Dvorkin, NPR ombudsman] said: "It depends on your homepage -- what if you're an advocate for left-handed socialist diabetics? We wouldn't want to give support to advocacy groups."

"It's part of keeping our integrity that our journalism remain noncommercial, and we're not engaged in advocacy in any way," Dvorkin explained.

Not engaged in advocacy? Who're they trying to fool?!?!? Anyway, don't link to NPR, heaven forfend. You might spoil their self-image or something.