• PitLoversNeedMeds
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    14 days ago

    I guess I am, but it does read as sarcastic and discrediting to me. You don’t see quotation marks when journalists write about employees “quiet quitting” for example, so it does seem one-sided to protect the corporations.

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      14 days ago

      I think you would see that if the headline was directly quoting a CEO. Like

      CEO of Nestle Blames “Quiet Quitting”, Calls For Mandatory RTO

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        14 days ago

        But you therefore admit any company can make any statement and if it doesn’t go through the CEO it will omit the quotation marks…?

        Because that’s my gripe about all this, companies are given the benefit of the doubt.

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            14 days ago

            That article headline has exactly one claim, the ‘influence’ claim.

            Yet there are two within the one we’re talking about:

            “DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database”

            And

            “Vulnerable”

            Yet only the latter is in quotation marks. Selective quotation seems intentional and meant to disparage the message being spread here.