No, it’s a single word which could have feasibly been said by anybody involved in this story, and there’s no way to tell because the headline doesn’t attribute the quote.
That’s not how quotes work. You can use individual words from someone as a quote. The number of words doesn’t matter when you’re quoting someone. You don’t have to quote the full sentence. It is not uncommon.
Why can’t the author say she was raped? Adding quotes means it is no longer a statement of fact but it becomes a report about someone’s account of what happened.
Why the fuck is that word in quotes.
Plaausible deniability to not get sued by not themselves making the claim but instead quoting the victim. A lack of integrity from the editors.
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No, it’s a single word which could have feasibly been said by anybody involved in this story, and there’s no way to tell because the headline doesn’t attribute the quote.
It’s editorializing, not a quote.
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That’s not how quotes work. You can use individual words from someone as a quote. The number of words doesn’t matter when you’re quoting someone. You don’t have to quote the full sentence. It is not uncommon.
Oh OK, so it’s a ‘quotation’ from the ‘victim’? Am I doing it right?
It “might” be “something” that “requires” further “investigation”.
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Why can’t the author say she was raped? Adding quotes means it is no longer a statement of fact but it becomes a report about someone’s account of what happened.
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