warned you from the fucking beginning, but everyone who needs anyone to tell them what to think is a weak idiot anyway
THINK FOR YOUR FUCKING SELF
If a journalist is quoting someone, taking directly from their speech may render a sentence grammatically incorrect. For instance, a journalist could have quotes from a number of sources, and they might prefer parallel construction of some kind in order to make a piece more readable, or they may quote a source in the middle of a sentence, and the source's preamble or previous speech is in the wrong tense.
In cases like that, brackets may also be used to indicate the source hasn't been quoted verbatim.
the absolute state of IQ on this board