If you think Common Dreams is trying to downplay the illegal nature of the firings and not just following a normal journalistic practice, you have lost the plot. You can see quotes used in headlines like this all the time, like here.
If you’re going to misrepresent what I said that badly while completely ignoring that this is, in fact, a widespread and standard headline format seen across many publications then I guess we’re done here 👍
If you think Common Dreams is trying to downplay the illegal nature of the firings and not just following a normal journalistic practice, you have lost the plot. You can see quotes used in headlines like this all the time, like here.
Yes, that is an example of a phrase in quotes being a clear quote as opposed to a single word.
BBC News: How an AI-written book shows why the tech ‘terrifies’ creatives
Washington Post: Trump says a ‘valve’ can solve California’s water woes. Experts say it’s not true.
New York Times: Trump Order Pushes Universities to ‘Monitor’ Protesters on Student Visas
There is so much shit with reporting to actually be mad about, using quotation marks to indicate a direct quote isn’t it.
The only person who is mad here is you.
If you’re going to misrepresent what I said that badly while completely ignoring that this is, in fact, a widespread and standard headline format seen across many publications then I guess we’re done here 👍