Vanishing media stories and how to get around the problem

I'm getting really annoyed with the media's online information services. I guess I should be happy to have any access at all to their stories, but from now on I will try to link to, for example, the actual governmental report rather than the story covering it: much more likely to get access to the report one week later. Then again, the Internet offers no guarantees... Another source of irritation is linking to a newspaper from a blog and then being told you have to register for access: argh!!

If you're looking for a way to archive news stories before they are locked away behind pay-per-view, consider using Furl to store the page and its contents. Just keep in mind the copyright issues: technically, you can't link to content you "copied" from another site: be careful to respect your sources. Remember, the corporate media's in it for the money.