The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s #Venezuela Attack an Act of War
By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with #Trump.
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/04/trump-maduro-venezuela-war-media/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
from #TheIntercept
Jan. 4, 2026
...none of these acts of brazen aggression, violence, and violations of international law have, in any sustained or meaningful way, been referred to as acts of war, a coup, or invasion in #US #MainstreamMedia reporting.
This episode seems to indicate that the president can do almost anything in the context of foreign policy, and the #media will still overwhelmingly adopt language that is flattering and sanitizing to the administration when describing what has unfolded. This dynamic reached a new low Saturday morning, when the US media rushed to frame the administration’s unprovoked attack as, at worst, a “ratcheted up” (CBS News) “pressure campaign” (WSJ) and some type of limited narcotics police “operation” (CNN).
#news #politics #USpol