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plucyesterday at 1:30 PM3 repliesview on HN

Why is spectacular in quotations? I keep seeing this in headlines, is it because they're quoting a single word?


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jameshartyesterday at 2:55 PM

It’s a BBC journalistic standards thing; the BBC doesn’t want to express an opinion about the image, they are relaying that as a quote from someone about the image. The word “spectacular” is attributed to NASA in the article.

not_a_bot_4shoyesterday at 2:49 PM

Yes

tantaloryesterday at 2:02 PM

It's lazy "editorializing"

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