I really hate this "quietly deleting" / "quietly removing" trend in news headlines. Politico's don't "publicly announce" things they want to stop talking about, so it's always going to be "quietly". It's not like their teams have to go into some secret room/SCIFF to remove a paragraph of text on a web page...
Seems quiet to me, in a metaphorical sense, if they delete something from PR page which they previously considered important enough to have as a campaign position, but without articulating a new position. They are obscuring their position.
It's emphasizing that they would prefer people not find out about it, which is different to regular deleting.
I don't think people delete things intending for them to be found out in general
Edit: I think the 'silent' part refers to them continuing the rethoric on twitter while deleting from the website
I really hate this "quietly deleting" / "quietly removing" trend in news headlines. Politico's don't "publicly announce" things they want to stop talking about, so it's always going to be "quietly". It's not like their teams have to go into some secret room/SCIFF to remove a paragraph of text on a web page...
Seems quiet to me, in a metaphorical sense, if they delete something from PR page which they previously considered important enough to have as a campaign position, but without articulating a new position. They are obscuring their position.
It's emphasizing that they would prefer people not find out about it, which is different to regular deleting.
I don't think people delete things intending for them to be found out in general
Edit: I think the 'silent' part refers to them continuing the rethoric on twitter while deleting from the website