So BBC, while on the cusp of censorship for “defamation of Trump”, still sees it necessary to watch his arse?
These bootlickers man
They all have the same owners. Mainstream media is a compromised asset. Don’t go there for “news” they are all no better than fox these days.
Well, kidnapping implies he will be used for ransom and returned. He was abducted.
BBC bans journalists from telling the truth?
It’s so unprecedented!
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BBC is appeasing Trump. The UK is a lost cause. An Irrelevant ex-empire. Just like the US is going to be, once it finally implodes.
Can it please implode faster?
One part of me hopes so but if/when it does, I doubt something better will emerge - which is terrifying.
I want it to implode enough that the federal government can’t keep hurting its citizens, but not so much that the citizens are worse off than when they were being repressed.
Kinda seems stupid to want it to implode then, no?
Still has the largest navy in Europe so not irrelevant. More relevant if anything with US withdrawal.
Too bad the UK fluffs the US so hard 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
We know all their secrets. Who do you think they get to spy on their citizens?
As they say, keep your friends close…
Newspeak: “In the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to reduce a person’s ability to think critically.”
See also: “the officer’s gun discharged” instead of “police shot the man”
The gun discharged, unprovoked
BBC is propaganda for the Empire.
They also murdered about 80 people when they kidnapped and trafficked them.
Abducted, then
Perhaps “unfreed” could be used instead?
Change “BBC” to “Global Media” and you are closer to the truth.
Censorship works.
It’s not a “war”, it’s a “special operation”. Anyone who says it’s a war is committing treason.
Since only Congress has the power to declare war, people who care about accurate language (especially journalists!) use other terms to describe troop deployments outside officially declared wars.
The US military has had names for nearly all of their operations since the mid-1960s, and these traditionally have been used by the press. Operation Power Pack in 1965 (invasion of the Dominican Republic) was the first one I found in my cursory search.
Major ones I remember from my life include Operation Desert Shield/Storm/Strike (1990s), Operation Enduring Freedom (“war on terror” in Afghanistan after 9/11), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (“war on terror” expands inexplicably to Iraq).
This type of framing is not new, and it’s not a conspiracy. It’s a bunch of language nerds making sure that they use accurate terminology.
Kidnapping is an emotionally loaded term which isn’t used in journalism. Makes sense.Edit: nah I’m wrong. They’d use it for the actual crime of kidnapping.I hate this shit. We need media to call a spoon a spoon.
Call lies, lies. “Misinformation”, “inaccuracies” “incorrectly said…” Nah fuck that. Trump lied.
Spoon? Is that like a symmetrical, dull, parabolic knife?
Your MOM’s dull and parabolic, but not symmetrical!
Duh. Her boobs are not the same size.
Alright, Sunflower Eriksen, just calm your tits.
I’ll have you know that my decreasingly ample bosom is in a state of complete relaxation 😁
No, that’s a putty knife. Spoons are elliptical and concave.
Trump’s a litigious piece of shit. If he can prove libel, he’ll prove libel. BBC (and all news networks, really) need to tread lightly and keep him happy or they will get kneecapped with legal actions. Which, even if they win, and have every reason to win…it’s still an expensive and time consuming process, and they still have to tread lightly.
Meanwhile, advertisers and shareholders get very nervous. Granted, this doesn’t apply so much to BBC.
This is what civil justice has come down to. What’s “right” is decided by who can pay lawyers long enough to prove it. Stab each other with plastic forks and see who leaks to death first.
Yeah unfortunately while law should mostly exist to protect the vulnerable from the powerful, instead many US laws such as libel exist mostly to allow the powerful to muzzle the vulnerable
I’ll allow it, as long as they call it a war crime.
Question : I break into someones home and take them to my home (from their bed) and lock them up. What’s that called?
It depends. What’s your net worth?
Depends on who’s writing history.
¿how many countries have you or the homeowners been el/la presidente of?
So if it’s a president, it’s not kidnapping, but just a surprise trip?
sparkling vacation
honestly, if the police does it with a warrant in their own country it’s certainly not called a kidnapping.
Hell, in the us right now they’re doing it without warrants
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