SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: many outlets—including the Times, as well as Reuters, CNN, and the Associated Press—ran headlines framing the legality of Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro and subsequent assertion of authority to “run” the country as open questions.

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'Assal Rad, a fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, DC and a frequent critic of US media coverage of foreign interventions, noted on social media that many outlets—including the Times, as well as Reuters, CNN, and the Associated Press—ran headlines framing the legality of Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro and subsequent assertion of authority to “run” the country as open questions.“This framing is meant to cast doubt on the most basic principles of international law and sovereignty,” Rad said.' '..the Washington Post’s editorial board—which was given a directive by its billionaire owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos earlier this year to use its pages to promote “free markets,” issued unconditional support for Trump’s attack and plans to govern Venezuela on Saturday, calling it a “triumph” and a “a major victory for American interests.”' 'Owen Jones, an independent British journalist and columnist, reportedthat the BBC had directed reporters not to refer to Maduro—who was whisked away in the dead of night by US soldiers along with his wife and shown bound and blindfolded by the US government—as having been “kidnapped” by the US, but rather “seized” or “captured.” According to Johnson, CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, who has previously spiked stories damaging to the Trump administration at the behest of the network’s new owners, directed the network’s newly installed “Evening News” anchor to always refer to Maduro as a “dictator,” echoing the government’s line. Johnson pointed out that the owner of CBS, Trump-aligned billionaire David Ellison, “recently partnered with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates” as part of his bid to take over CBS parent company Paramount, “so rest assured these dictatorships will not be getting the label.”'

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3:27 PM · Jan 6, 2026