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Maybe someone could remove those 'distracting, unnecessary quotation marks' as well. I think the BBC somehow thinks they're being ultraprecise by putting quota
by gaur 10y ago
Maybe someone could remove those 'distracting, unnecessary quotation marks' as well.
I think the BBC somehow thinks they're being ultraprecise by putting quotation marks around certain words, but it's just obnoxious.
- Doctor_Fegg 10y agoIt's just to indicate reported speech: "this isn't confirmed fact, it's something we've been told". Absolutely standard journalistic practice.
- gaur 10y agoAt one point, the headline was changed to read "Syrian migrant 'behind German blast'". But at that point, the fact that there was a German blast was widely known; the unconfirmed portion was that a Syrian migrant was behind it. So if anything, the headline should have been written "'Syrian migrant' behind German blast". But the BBC didn't do that, because all indications are that BBC journalists pepper their headlines randomly with quotation marks. Randomly peppering headlines with quotation marks absolutely is not standard practice. Most American newspapers don't do it.
- Doctor_Fegg 10y agoOk, absolutely standard British journalistic practice then, where the BBC (and I) come from.