As a blogger I am well versed in "fair use doctrine" as each site you post and blog on have varying rules for posting. Some only allow excerpts of news articles while others allow the display of the entire new article. I have yet to see any news organization go after a site for posting an article in it's entirety. One reason may be these sites don't use the materials to profit off and they drive traffic to the news site that people ordinarily wouldn't go check out so they serve as a free advertising vector that would otherwise cost news organizations millions in promoting their brand.
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They tend to use capricious and tyrannical enforcement. Positive reviews tend to be ignored, but negative reviews are often hit with the ban-hammer.
This results in rampant hypocrisy.
Two people can post identical content with different commentary and one will be allowed to profit while the other faces obscene threats of litigation.