He’s quoted as arguing “we shouldn’t even have an election,” on account of how much the Trump Administration has accomplished.
Well I wanted to make up my own mind, but Time thinks it's appropriate to quote one fragment of a sentence, cutting off the start and end to leave only the middle (starts with a lowercase letter, ends with a comma). I don't want to appear greedy and ask for something as extravagant as multi-sentence context, so I guess I'll just think what Time wants me to think.
Yes, but according to US punctuation law it is permitted to falsely attribute commas. I mean, they put the comma on the wrong side of the closing quotation mark where logically it does not belong.
Do you think, hypothetically, it's possible to have misgivings about Trump, and at the same time have misgivings about how the news is reported? Somebody mentioned Trump moving the Overton window with such 'jokes'. When a supposedly respectable newspaper like Time publishes out-of-context sentence fragments, even if the context wouldn't have change anything, that also moves the Overton window - it moves how much we'll accept the news being mangled, until "Oh I'm sure the stuff they cut out wouldn't have changed anything" becomes a habit.
If you're okay with that, then just outsource your right to vote to Time, or some other newspaper, because you've basically already done so.
Yes, I know the full quote and context is available, which is exactly why I'm upset at Time for omitting it, training their audience to accept cherry-picket snippets. Which is exactly what I said in my post, so I have no idea what you're replying to, but it can't be anything I wrote. Goodbye.
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Well I wanted to make up my own mind, but Time thinks it's appropriate to quote one fragment of a sentence, cutting off the start and end to leave only the middle (starts with a lowercase letter, ends with a comma). I don't want to appear greedy and ask for something as extravagant as multi-sentence context, so I guess I'll just think what Time wants me to think.
Yes, but according to US punctuation law it is permitted to falsely attribute commas. I mean, they put the comma on the wrong side of the closing quotation mark where logically it does not belong.
Here's a more complete quote: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tells-christians-they...
Oh, wait, that was from the last time Trump said this. Your mind is made up, so stop pretending otherwise. Nobody's fooled, and nobody's impressed.
Do you think, hypothetically, it's possible to have misgivings about Trump, and at the same time have misgivings about how the news is reported? Somebody mentioned Trump moving the Overton window with such 'jokes'. When a supposedly respectable newspaper like Time publishes out-of-context sentence fragments, even if the context wouldn't have change anything, that also moves the Overton window - it moves how much we'll accept the news being mangled, until "Oh I'm sure the stuff they cut out wouldn't have changed anything" becomes a habit.
If you're okay with that, then just outsource your right to vote to Time, or some other newspaper, because you've basically already done so.
You know people follow him around with actual video cameras and audio recorders, right?
There's no need to speak of hypotheticals here... and only morons and professional sealions still have "misgivings." Which are you?
Yes, I know the full quote and context is available, which is exactly why I'm upset at Time for omitting it, training their audience to accept cherry-picket snippets. Which is exactly what I said in my post, so I have no idea what you're replying to, but it can't be anything I wrote. Goodbye.