A career official at the U.S. Agency for International Development said he was placed on leave after refusing an order to "violate the due process of our employees."
If you think Common Dreams is trying to downplay the illegal nature of the firings and not just following a normal journalistic practice, you have lost the plot. You can see quotes used in headlines like this all the time, like here.
If you think Common Dreams is trying to downplay the illegal nature of the firings and not just following a normal journalistic practice, you have lost the plot. You can see quotes used in headlines like this all the time, like here.
Yes, that is an example of a phrase in quotes being a clear quote as opposed to a single word.
BBC News: How an AI-written book shows why the tech ‘terrifies’ creatives
Washington Post: Trump says a ‘valve’ can solve California’s water woes. Experts say it’s not true.
New York Times: Trump Order Pushes Universities to ‘Monitor’ Protesters on Student Visas
There is so much shit with reporting to actually be mad about, using quotation marks to indicate a direct quote isn’t it.