Corporate Media Don’t Think Americans Paid to Invade Venezuela Count as MercenariesArchived Message
Posted by MikeD on May 12, 2020, 12:44 pm
Corporate Media Don’t Think Americans Paid to Invade Venezuela Count as Mercenaries
...The Wall Street Journal’s report (5/6/20) not only put terms like “mercenary incursion” in scare quotes, but also lionized these mercenaries by portraying them as unlikely heroes, out to “arrest Venezuela’s authoritarian government and free political prisoners.” Whereas BBC’s headline “Venezuela Detains Two US Citizens Over Speedboat Incursion” (5/5/20) seemed better suited to describing rich bros wandering into the wrong area, rather than soldiers of fortune caught trying to overthrow a government...