Article in FAIR by Drew Favakeh, 1/13/26
Headline: “ACTION ALERT: Why Didn’t NYT, WaPo Report What They Knew About Venezuelan Invasion?”
“When the Trump administration invaded Venezuela and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, the New York Times and Washington Post framed it as a surprise. . .”
“But word quickly got out that it was not a surprise to either paper. Semafor (1/3/26), an outlet co-founded by former Times media columnist Ben Smith, reported that both the Times and Post ‘learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin,’ but chose not to report on it, to ‘avoid endangering US troops.’ . .”
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