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A journalist's job is to check out the window. If you're only quoting the people saying it's raining or it's sunny, you are repeating propaganda. People who demand that journalists only quote exactly the words that are fed to them get upset when journalists actually try to explain what's happening and what those people are really doing. Journalism needs to maintain context and the consequences not written in the PR stunt.
No, I'm totally with you on providing the surrounding context for a clearer picture. That would be an example of good journalism. Providing the context with the tweet is different than titling the article "[person] says that [programmer's] time is over". That is fully just interpreting the situation for readers and delivering it like fact. Especially with how prevalent it is for not reading beyond headlines, it's (in my opinion) irresponsible to do something like that.
He did say "thank you for bringing us up to this point" which is what the article is translating as "you're fired". Because that is indeed what it means in corporate speech, the article is correct. Everyone else is sharing the same interpretation, too, because we know what kind of guy Altman is.
That's the speech of a techbro CEO who has reached his revenue goal and is announcing that he's closing your shop.