Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'

Re:Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' by jlgreco on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @02:30PM (#6446373)

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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Re:Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' by nether on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @03:40PM (#6446818)

You're ascribing American notions of journalism to a British paper. They are not scare quotes.

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Re:Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' by adwf on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @04:43PM (#6447166)

Yes, our libel laws are much stronger. And scarier in scope.

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Re:Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' by superluminary on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @04:33PM (#6447116)

In England that would read like hack journalism. It would cheapen the paper and make people doubt the story.

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Re:Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' by jlgreco on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @04:48PM (#6447194)

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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Re:Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' by sudomal on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @04:14PM (#6447012)

Better 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'.

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