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superluminary on Sept 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: 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 [–]

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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