This is a blog post about a news article we didn't write

Here's where a quote or a few paragraphs that we took from the article to introduce to the readers the basic idea and hopefully give enough of an oversight of the article to stimulate debate about the subject.

We then maybe take another paragraph later on with some stats or findings – or isolate a quote to help illustrate the previous point. For example:

"In this paragraph I will state the main claim that the research makes, making appropriate use of "scare quotes" to ensure that it's clear that I have no opinion about this research whatsoever."

We then add a link at the bottom for further reading in to the subject, unfortunately some people miss this and only read our parts and miss the entire point. Then then leave a comment like "what's that all about then?" which is why it's so important that we:

link to the original article