darkteflon 10 hours ago

That is all fine and good as a quote in the body text of the article, but as a headline that is criminally poor editorial work from the Guardian. If it’s intentional clickbait, my opinion of that paper sinks even lower. To think, under Rusbridger it was my daily read.

  • xorbax an hour ago

    It summarizes the point of the article using the words of people interviewed.

    How do you judge it as "clickbait"?

epgui 18 hours ago

Not to diminish the severity of the situation, but I believe this is a figure of speech… In case that wasn’t clear.

  • xorbax an hour ago

    ...it was pretty obvious. Did you assume it was literally dipped in human blood before export or something?

    I'm curious how the metaphor is so far from one's mind when reading.

  • kingstnap 14 hours ago

    Blood <=> Suffering/Violence/Death is standard English.

    It's actually definition #2 on google "Blood: 2. violence involving bloodshed."

  • more_corn 17 hours ago

    Pretty powerful headline. My first thought was “literally? How?”

    • 1659447091 13 hours ago

      > My first thought was “literally? How?”

      The ones sent to go swimming with the fishes