The Politics of Bylines in the Newspaper

I'm baffled by your belief that it's like a God given right that your name should be on it. I feel like it should be an editorial policy that either everyone has bylines or no one has bylines. The associated press seems like the newspapers getting together and outsourcing most of the stories that they don't want to deal with precisely so that they can just have material. A byline will also go sometimes just for space reasons like, oh, we want to get that last sentence squeezed in the bottom. What we can cut is all the credit. But normally the policy will be a byline goes on if it's long enough. So if you've just taken copy from the wires