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This coming from someone who took the time to complain about a… checks notes… phrase used on every social media and even in news articles, not just on reddit.
No, that's not a thing in hard news. Maybe in opinion pieces or columns, but it's definitely not in the AP Style Guide, which in the US is still the industry standard.
Perhaps outside the AP or whatever, but I have seen it used recently as such in sources that could be considered mainstream news by today’s audiences.
edit: not that the absence of such would make this guy’s complaint any less ridiculous
In news articles? What * checks notes * news sources are you using?!
Ok, first of all, for someone who complains that the phrase should be used appropriately, you don’t use it appropriately at all, in either this case or in that other “unimaginative” reply under this post, while the person you’re trying to call out about it actually did use it appropriately.
Meanwhile, don’t act stupid and pretend that articles from major news sources haven’t started using that phrase as a narrative device in regards to Republican nonsense in general. I don’t have to point you to it, it’s out there.
Beo give me an example of these * * checks notes* * news articles using "checks notes," and a blog post won't cut it.
Well oh well, look who's walking in my shoes!
No.
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