[mywittyname]

Quoting entire sentences is fine. But anymore, news is quoting literally single words without any citations.

/u/secondcoming asks, "are you trolling? I hope you are."

Vs.

User "trolls" forum. Posters respond to "quotes" with "oh no."

Seriously, about 80% of FN headlines contain one or two word mini-quotes.

[secondcoming]

Right, but it's not "air quotes". Those have an element of sarcasm.