> For a long time after the internet arrived on the scene, a lot of online news stories would reference websites, papers, polls, etc. without linking to them. There are still news sources doing this today.

I agree, this drives me crazy. Ironically, one of my favorite uses for Claude is to ask, "What study is this news article talking about?"

It's pretty good at digging up the source and related sources. And most of the time, if you read the source, the article is nonsense and gets everything wrong.