OT: Converting live Freep link ==> revenue-free print link

I have detected a contradiction in attitudes toward the newspaper in question. On the one hand, there is a widely-expressed alienation amounting to a boycott; on the other, whenever the paper in question is linked in posts, it seems to almost always be a revenue-generating live link, which assists this paper to profit from the controversy generated by its questionable journalistic practices. I have been somewhat torn; on the one hand, I definitely have no desire to aid and abet an ongoing journalistic assault on our school and team; on the other, I feel a need to see what the malefactors are up to, and perhaps a perverse desire to love to hate them. By now, I am getting truly tired of the tone of almost all the admittedly small sample of stories I've seen over there and am getting to where I have no need to see another one. But I had hoped that a general practice of linking only the revenue-free print links to those articles would have precipated down by now, but this has not been the case. Torn between hostility and curiosity myself, I have always felt torn about the situation presented by live links. Today, I finally connected to a live link in order to study the situation concerning print links, and I can propose the following simple edit in order to turn links that help our enemy into harmless print links for as long as the practice of posting live links goes on. For an example, I use the infamous article that was a virtual declaration of war: <http://www.freep.com/article/20090829/SPORTS06/90829021/1054/Michigan-f…; The first step will be to render it from a hyperlink to simple text. The way I do this is to right-click on the link, and then to click on "properties" in the resulting window. This will pull up a window with the link in a harmless text form which you can cut-and-paste into your browser target window. You may need to resize the "properties" box to show all of the link. Once you have the link positioned as a target url in your browser, edit as follows: <http://www.freep.com/print/article/20090829/SPORTS06/90829021/1054/Michigan-football-program-broke-rules--players-say/> This should be the result: <http://www.freep.com/print/article/20090829/SPORTS06/90829021/Michigan-…; You should be able to hit "enter" and arrive at the non-revenue-generating print version of the article. It is a whole hell of a lot less cluttered, as well. It's a pity this is necessary. The contrast at DetNews is night-and-day. As an example, there is this article by the aptly-named Angelique Chengelis, here, originally linked to this site in this thread. For this article, AC read the blogs, identified a dangerous and pernicious rumor, and took the initiative to phone RR's agent to squash the rumor herself. This is what journalism as a public service looks like -- exposing misinformation, not peddling it.