I think that NYT and Washington Post articles can only be excerpted. However, that doesn't mean that other news sources have to be.
Ah - I was remembering wrong. I too was thinking that the NYTimes, from which this posting came, was one of the papers that we
had to excerpt. This is why I excerpted it. But according to the
Free Republic home page:
Free Republic has settled the alleged copyright infringement suit brought by The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post and has agreed not to post full text articles from their publications or any of their related subsidiaries and affiliates.
I agree with posting entire articles, and except when posting from a source that I think we have to excerpt, I more or less always do so.