To be honest though, you can acquire links from many major news sites with fairly low risk. Its not the news site itself that's selling the links, but rather editors/authors who write on there(usually individuals). If you have a high quality site its hard for anyone to suspect anything. I've seen my friends domains having links from extremely high quality high PR .edu pages just because they had a hookup of some sort or the other. You won't find these links publicly, but usually private skype chats etc.
