{"id":143622,"date":"2026-01-06T11:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143622"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:12:32","slug":"bbc-journalists-reportedly-told-to-avoid-saying-us-kidnapped-venezuelan-leader-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143622","title":{"rendered":"BBC journalists reportedly told to avoid saying US \u2018kidnapped\u2019 Venezuelan leader Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBBC journalists have reportedly been instructed not to describe America\u2019s abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro as a \u201ckidnapping\u201d, according to a British newspaper columnist.<br \/>\nThe editorial instruction was unveiled by Owen Jones on Monday, a commentator with more than a million followers on a social media platform. Jones said a memo from BBC management had been passed to him.<br \/>\nAccording to an image Jones uploaded with his post, the guidelines told BBC\u2019s journalists to use \u201ccaptured\u201d when&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3338946\/bbc-journalists-reportedly-told-avoid-saying-us-kidnapped-venezuelan-leader-maduro?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBBC journalists have reportedly been instructed not to describe America\u2019s abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro as a \u201ckidnapping\u201d, according to a British newspaper&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}