journalism/interview question

[mylife]

"They paid big money to get those receivers. Nice. They had 7 catches for 84 yards combined Sunday and ran (poor) routes."



why is poor in parentheses? i see this a lot when people are quoted in the news.

 

[THeMaCHinE]

it means the word was implied, but not directly said in context of the quote

 

[Warik]

Normally it is supposed to be in brackets [], but the brackets and parentheses are often used interchangeably.

It basically means: "the quote is like this, but I added this word in myself."

Like if I say: "I hate my university. It has the most ridiculous requirements." and someone from a big business magazine wanted to quote me in 20 years when I'm king of the world, but he didn't want to quote my first sentence, he'd probably say: "[My university] has the most ridiculous requirements."

Meaning "he is talking about his university, but he didn't use those exact words."

-Warik