Whose Quotes Get Cleaned Up? How News Orgs Normalize Some Voices and Scrutinize Others
In mid-February, The New York Times ignited a storm of criticism with a piece about Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a security conference in Munich.The article was critical (the headline included the phrase “with some stumbles”) but the anger it provoked was caused by a verbatim quote that included repeated “ah”s, The post Whose Quotes Get Cleaned Up? How News Orgs Normalize Some Voices and Scrutinize Others first appeared on Storybench.
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