Quote mining

How it is used

Use for selective extraction that changes the apparent message, not ordinary shortening with meaning preserved.

Example sentences

1. The full recording exposed quote mining in the campaign's attack on the researcher.

   Restoring surrounding words reveals how the selected fragment misled readers.

2. To avoid quote mining, the reporter kept the qualification that followed the striking sentence.

   A qualification can materially change the strength or scope of a statement.

Common collocations

• accuse someone of quote mining
• avoid quote mining
• selective quote mining

Related terms

• quoteThe exact words that someone said or wrote, repeated in a story inside quotation marks; as a verb, to repeat someone's words and say who said them.
• transcriptA written or printed copy of exactly what was said in an interview, speech, broadcast or recording.

More terms: Interviews and Quotes

• interview
• off the record
• on the record
• on background
• vox pop
• interviewee
• no comment
• quote approval
• pre-interview
• doorstepping
• death knock
• trauma-informed interviewing