BBC bans saying US ‘kidnapped’ Maduro – leaked memo

The policy looks like “Orwellian stuff,” British journalist Owen Jones has said

The BBC has instructed staff to avoid describing the US abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as a “kidnapping” and to use less loaded alternatives such as “seized,” according to a leaked internal memo shared online by British journalist and Guardian columnist Owen Jones.

Maduro was apprehended in a US military raid on Caracas over the weekend...