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The scare quotes in the title seem somewhat editorial, and should probably be removed by moderator. Also, a link to the original report on which the posted art
by MaysonL 16y ago
The scare quotes in the title seem somewhat editorial, and should probably be removed by moderator.
Also, a link to the original report on which the posted article is based: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers/torture_at_times_hks_students.pdf http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers/tort...
- talbina 16y agoNo, it is not editorial, that is the title given on the front page. The practice by online news publications to have different headings is very common. No, the original link serves a different purpose. Andrew Sullivan is not your average news aggregator, and his commentary on the subject brings in a lot of weight. In addition, there are links in his article which show his prior research in this area along with a piece by Salon. Thirdly, some people prefer a quick newspaper style summary rather than an abstract from a peer reviewed journal.
- MaysonL 16y agoI wasn't criticizing the Sullivan post, merely adding the link to the original: Sullivan's blog links to a Google Docs copy of the Harvard study - which I found annoying: PDF's are much easier to handle than Google docs (IMO - YMMV)
- philwelch 16y agoHow so? They're not scare quotes, they're actual quotes. It's a grammatical convention in English to quote a word if you're talking about the word itself, as the headline does.
- MaysonL 16y agoActually, to call something torture is substantially different in connotation than to call something 'torture'. I think the Atlantic headline writer goofed.