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> Curiously the BBC also used quotes around "won".

Journalistically, that can be appropriate to indicate that that word was used by Cuomo; distinguishing direct quotation from paraphrase or interpretation of intent.

OTOH, on HN, the policy is to use the source headline unless there is a strong reason not to, using a paraphrase of a bullet point in the article-top summary is dubious, even if that bullet point is the main reason the poster was inspired to post the link.






I'm the submitter. I used the verbatim source headline at the time of posting. Since then, the source headline has been changed.



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