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BBC news articles are full of scare quotes then.
by rzzzt 4y ago
BBC news articles are full of scare quotes then.
- vmception 4y agoA non American publication, exhibit a
- kube-system 4y agoThose are just traditional quotes, used to indicate that the words are something that someone else said, verbatim.
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- zem 4y agothe bbc usage is scare-quote-adjacent, they mean "this is not us saying this, it is someone else who said it and we are reporting it verbatim" (implied: we make no claims as to its accuracy)
- rzzzt 4y agoI think OP intended to use them in the same way. I can find a direct reference to "private" and "no ads" on the landing page, "free" is not written anywhere so that's a miss.
- pessimizer 4y agoIn the headlines. The journalistic use of scare quotes around single words in headlines is so they can trumpet claims without taking legal responsibility for them.
- kube-system 4y agoThey are more commonly used just to communicate to the reader about which part of the headline is paraphrased and which part is not. A subject’s diction can be very important in many news stories and so quotations of this type can communicate a lot of information in a short headline. It also indicates when a phrase is not editorial in nature, but a claim made by someone else.
- pessimizer 4y agoSingle-word quotes can't help but be taken out of context.
- kube-system 4y agoThey can be used that way, but hard news sources typically use them in pretty unambiguous circumstances. Like ‘Disaster left “devastating” path of destruction, says mayor’