"The Media Refuses to Call #Trump’s #Venezuela Attack an Act of War
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In the past 60 hours, U.S. media’s adoption of this pseudo-legal framing has grown even less tenable, relying heavily on sterile, White House-friendly language that conspicuously avoids any mention of the U.S. wantonly violating international law, beyond a throwaway paragraph or 'is this legal?'
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/04/trump-maduro-venezuela-war-media/
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"Similarly, #Trump’s bombing and invasion of a sovereign country suddenly became an 'escalating pressure campaign' or an 'operation,' rather than an act of war.
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Just as crime reporters mindlessly adopt 'copspeak,' military reporters — despite their recent dust-ups with the Pentagon over access — have almost completely, to the reporter, adopted Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s 'police action' framing."
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/04/trump-maduro-venezuela-war-media/
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"What we’re left with is a de facto state media, one in lockstep with an administration [...].
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U.S. media reflexively adopting the most euphemistic terminology used by those in power when discussing a clear-cut case of military aggression against a sovereign country isn’t journalism, it’s court stenography that only serves to sanitize and provide the vague impression of legal justification [...]."
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/04/trump-maduro-venezuela-war-media/
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