News websites rarely link externally because they want you to stay on their site and don’t want to improve the SEO of other sites (which may be other news media

News websites rarely link externally because they want you to stay on their site and don’t want to improve the SEO of other sites (which may be other news media). To be fair, there are legitimate reasons too. Links can become invalid and they most likely don’t want to deal with the headache of fixing that/perceived UX issues of not fixing it. Even worse, linked content could be easily replaced with something… unsavory