At least they quoted some entire sentences. The worst are when they mix direct quotations along with their own paraphrasing in the same sentence.
For example, the first headline I clicked just now has several examples....U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it will be a "huge challenge" to pull off new balloting without repeating the widespread fraud that caused U.N.-backed investigators to strip Karzai of nearly a third of his votes from the Aug. 20 first-round election.They use just a sentence fragment and complete the statement with their own paraphrased version of the quote. What's the point of that?Karzai, standing alongside Sen. John Kerry and U.N. mission chief Kai Eide, said he welcomed the runoff. He called the decision to hold a second round "legitimate, legal and according to the constitution of Afghanistan."![]()
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