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Because it's quoting a comment from Anil Dash. (More of the comment is quoted in the body of the article.)
by mbrubeck 16y ago
Because it's quoting a comment from Anil Dash. (More of the comment is quoted in the body of the article.)
- sophacles 16y agoThat may be true, however there is still quite a disconnect between the intended "quoting" and resulting 'scare quote' issue. Basically, without knowing the quote, it adds a pile of sarcasm to the title roughly equivalent to: so-called smart guy kills himself It's just sad.
- redthrowaway 16y agoWhen something is quoted in a newspaper, it's just that: a quote. Unfortunately, some editors will pick quotes selectively in order to sensationalize the headline, but that doesn't mean a quoted phrase is meant to be suspect. To wit: Area woman "terrified" by Sex Predadtor - implies the woman, when asked, said she was terrified, not that "terrified" should be taken with a grain of salt.
- sayrer 16y agowow, I couldn't believe it either. A scare quote headline with a full suicide note republished. I did notice no one at the Huffington Post would attach their name to this trash.
- cagenut 16y agosearch for the text "Filed by", its there, its just buried in the 800 things huffpo crams on a page.
- chc 16y agoIf you look at about half the comments in this subthread (including the grandparent of yours), you would see that these are not scare quotes — they're the normal kind of quotes, which indicate a quotation.
- napierzaza 16y agoI'm sure that will bother his ghost more than anything.
- sophacles 16y agoIt may bother his friends. It would bother me immensely if it was my friend it looked like they were trashing.
- ElliotH 16y agoNot necessarily. Try reading " 'brilliant' " as " described by his colleagues as 'brilliant' ", take into account the well respected people that he worked with and its a far higher compliment than the article writer, who is almost certainly not a programmer, could possibly offer.