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.
As you correctly say, the BBC do use the word “kidnap” when talking about the October 7th attacks. It is trivial to find examples online.
With that in mind, and noting the quotes you have chosen to illustrate this point, and in particular their lack of even one mention of the word “kidnap”, I feel I must ask: are you on crack or something?
I went to the few days after Oct 7th, hopefully it’s not a stretch to assume that the word “massacre” isn’t less sensationalist than “kidnap”.