Reply #13: You are permitted to do so in a reply. [View All]

[Skinner]

Also, please note that our treatment of blogs is now slightly more liberal than before:

5. Whenever possible, post excerpts and links from reputable mainstream news sources that are available online. Do not link to blogs, vanity sites, or blatantly biased sources, except in cases where reputable mainstream sources are not available. Please make an effort to link directly to the original source of an article, instead of linking to sites that have re-published someone else's content, or re-packaged someone else's content as their own. The moderators have the authority to decide which websites are appropriate for posting in the Latest Breaking News forum and which are not.

In other words: If a blog breaks a story, and it's the only news source that carries the story, you are permitted to use it as the source.