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superluminary
on Sept 25, 2013
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Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'
In England that would read like hack journalism. It would cheapen the paper and make people doubt the story.
jlgreco
on Sept 25, 2013
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I 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.
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