>That's not a game of telephone, that's quoting a direct source No, it's not. Not at all. A quote is where the actual words someone said are put forth verbati

>That's not a game of telephone, that's quoting a direct source No, it's not. Not at all. A quote is where the actual words someone said are put forth verbatim. What we got was a summary of what was said and that's exactly my issue with the statement - summaries leave wiggle room for people to come back later and say "well, that's not exactly what I said". >Every single article published in any newspaper ever is a journalist claiming a source said something. Yes, and there are conventions to make it clear when the journalist is directly quoting a source (the use of quotation marks) and when the journalist is giving their own summary of what the source said.