Patterico's Pontifications

12/6/2005

Bill Arkin’s Continuing Trouble with Quotes

Filed under: Media Bias — Patterico @ 12:11 am



Regular readers know Bill Arkin has trouble with quotes. Well, he’s having trouble again:

The fact that I worked for Greenpeace at one time seems to propel many readers and bloggers — Little Green Footballs, Power Line, Captain’s Quarters, Decision ’08, Patterico’s Pontifications — into a frenzy.

The bloggers often describe me as a “former liberal Greenpeace political activist.”

Really?

Funny thing: when you stick the phrase “former liberal Greenpeace political activist” into Google, you get (as of this morning) one result: Bill Arkin.

This is classic Arkin. His apologists will no doubt argue that, in context, this is not meant to be a quote. But it would have been so easy to simply omit the quotes, so that there would be no doubt. Why not just do that?

Memo to Arkin: you can’t be trusted with quotation marks. If it’s not a direct quote, just don’t use quotation marks. Better yet: just don’t use them at all.

UPDATE AND PROGRAMMING NOTE: This may be the last post for several days. I will explain later.

4 Responses to “Bill Arkin’s Continuing Trouble with Quotes”

  1. take out the former and what do you get?

    actus (ebc508)

  2. Like…several days later?

    See Dubya (58fbf9)

  3. 😆 Awww, you bad, bad bloogers are picking on this liberal pinhead Arkin… For shame!…:lol:

    russ (ee21cb)


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