THE BBC has told its reporters not to use the word “kidnapped” when describing the US government’s allegedly illegal abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
The directive was revealed by The National contributor Owen Jones, who said it had been passed to him by a member of BBC staff.
I’ll try to avoid the word kidnapped. America presidentnapped a foreign country’s leader in the middle of the night. Maduro peacefully surrendered as opposed to being shot