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Loving Those Scare Quotes

Nothing irks me more than scare quotes in a article. Quotes used to denote:

1) a direct quote from a source,
2) to indicate slang,
3) or to denote a common term for something that was difficult to put into writing.

Today though journalists use quotes to:

1) provide emphasis,
2) to indicate doubt,
3) or to invert meaning.

Often I really have no idea why the quotes are there. Anyways...

My favourite quotes of today are:

UN aid mission 'to visit Sudan'

From this article:
Some 670,000 people have fled "ethnic cleansing" by Arab militias in Darfur but remain in Sudan, with little aid.
Chinese hostages in Iraq 'freed'

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