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India Factory Workers Revolt, Kill Company President
- jdrols 15y agoWow, that might be the worst lede I've ever seen in an article: >Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in the India raided the home of their boss, and beat him senseless with led pipes after a wage dispute turned ugly. Led pipes and "The India", seriously Forbes?
- someone13 15y agoNot to nitpick, but the article has several other grammar mistakes: > Curfew and other civil orders were imposed in Yanam because of the uprising led to the murder of the Regency president. > Eight Regency Ceramics workers were injured in police firing that followed [...] And so on. I think that they might have forgotten to send this to the editor (not being sarcastic).
- jeffool 15y agoOr maybe they used some automatic translation tool and it was posted automatically when the foreign language version was posted?
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- jdrols 15y agoSeems too complicated. Personally, my bet is on an editor who is pulling in some weekend hours and has had a few drinks. Gotta have a few rubber-stamped articles to justify the double-pay for the last few hours of "work" ;)
- mcl 15y agoThe wealth gap in India has gone from disturbing to appalling within a couple of decades. With the exposure that the poor are getting through media their dissent and the feelings of being left out is going to grow and lead to very dark days ahead.
- martythemaniak 15y agoHow about a more accurate title? "Company president has police kill union boss, workers go on rampage and kill president".
- angrycoder 15y agoBecause it is a headline, not a summary.
- martythemaniak 15y agoOh, I seem to have missed the Forbes headline on the killing of the union boss...
- fleitz 15y agoYou'd probably want to look for that in Pravda, Forbes caters to a certain audience, like Hacker News caters to a certain audience, like Pravda caters to a certain audience. I'm not saying it's right, but different publications cater to different audiences and appropriately select articles and headlines that will garner attention from that audience.
- mark_up 15y agoAn eye for an eye isn't quite as attention grabbing as class warfare.
- drats 15y ago"Has police kill union boss"? I don't see that anywhere in the article, some people think it's the right of unions not only to strike but also to use force (to block people entering workplaces). If they are legally not allowed to do that (court order) and the police have to disperse them violently then the police are just doing their job. And even if the police overstepped the mark and used too much force I don't think murder of the owner is a valid solution.
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- keeptrying 15y agoRecently forbes has started to stink big time. Their articles are mostly lousy. Bad headlines. Hardly any editing done on the story. What happened? It used to be such a respectable magazine.
- coryl 15y agoPerhaps web economics? The struggle to make money off quality content vs pageview CPM model?
- radicalbyte 15y agoThey outsourced it to India? %)
- stickfigure 15y agoThere is simply not enough information in the article to make any kind of moral judgement on the people involved.* * With the exception of Forbes' editors, who clearly deserve the bile posted. Led pipes? Really?