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That is exactly what it is. The author and/or editor should have had a spine and made the headline: "Revealed: Qatar's World Cup slaves"
by jlgreco 13y ago
That is exactly what it is. The author and/or editor should have had a spine and made the headline: "Revealed: Qatar's World Cup slaves"
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- nether 13y agoYou're ascribing American notions of journalism to a British paper. They are not scare quotes.
- adwf 13y agoYes, our libel laws are much stronger. And scarier in scope.
- sudomal 13y agoBetter to let the reader make up their own opinion rather than to push your own. 'Slave' is a loaded term, it's like calling someone a 'terrorist' or a 'murderer'.
- superluminary 13y agoIn England that would read like hack journalism. It would cheapen the paper and make people doubt the story.
- jlgreco 13y agoI now understand that they are not using scare quotes in this case (which is what my mistaken objection was to), but I don't think that would be hack journalism. They still don't quote like that for the phrase "sex slave" for instance.