Actually, it probably would have been even worse in the old days of page rank rules all. I guarantee you that there is a lot more relinks to the NYT article tha

Actually, it probably would have been even worse in the old days of page rank rules all. I guarantee you that there is a lot more relinks to the NYT article than to its source. Are all of the news article pointing to the blog source ? Yes (well not even that actually). But the rest of the web, the reddit, the facebooks, the twitter, the everything points to the news article on NYT, Fox, ...