Rasputin - 11:22 am on Oct 3, 2011 (gmt 0)

@ seoNOOB,
From the sites I've seen affected it is much more likely to be the contents that is the problem - although sitewide links might not help your rankings I don't personally think they are part of panda.

I would guess that if most of your content comes from other sources that is much more likely to be the problem, unless you are substantially rewriting every article and adding your own opinions etc - sites that re-post news or aticles from elsewhere are pretty much the type of site that google were targetting with panda.