I still don't quite get why people (especially alleged news sources) post pictures of a twitter box, rather than just say 'User NoodleHead on twitter is quoted

I still don't quite get why people (especially alleged news sources) post pictures of a twitter box, rather than just say 'User NoodleHead on twitter is quoted as saying "I don't like this"'. This feels like a not-so-gentle manipulation. Some guy, who might be sitting next to you on the bus right now, said something on twitter, but that's now news because it's got their @IGN, their actual name (or maybe not), a weirdly formatted date string, the numbers '1' and '6' adjacent to icons at the bottom of the box, a 'Follow' button so you can forever be bombarded with more nuggets of wisdom from this person you don't know, all inside a box that doesn't even have rounded corners.