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		zzmp on March 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Delays Home-Speaker Unveil Amid Data Cris... They call all of their sources "the people". It's not coming out yet, "the people said". Kinda strange...

vanilla_nut on March 28, 2018 [–]

I think that's actually part of a general journalism style guide. It definitely sounds strange, but so does the constant third person passive voice you tend to see in journal articles.

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