[monday]

"I wonder why this 'news organization' decided to use quotes around 'terrorists'. Oh wait, Agence France-Press. Nevermind."

Quotation marks mean they are quoting someone. It doesn't mean they question the veracity of the quotation. If the men had been common criminals, presumably they would have put "convicts" in quotation marks instead of "terrorists".

[John Jorsett]

Quotation marks mean they are quoting someone. It doesn't mean they question the veracity of the quotation. If the men had been common criminals, presumably they would have put "convicts" in quotation marks instead of "terrorists".

You can presume that pretty much every element of a news story is coming from someone's assertion to a reporter. When you single out something and put quotes around it, you're calling attention to it and essentially saying that its potentially suspect. For example, "Congressman Smith and his 'wife' attended a gala last evening."

[webheart]

Quotation marks mean they are quoting someone.

No, quotation marks means it doesn't really mean what the word usually means.