Noam Chomsky wrote a piece in what used to be Progressive Magazine (I think), in which he cited a TV news reader in Russia who was removed from his job to attend re-education classes because he called the Russian troops in Afghanistan an “invasion.”
Chomsky contrasted the incident with the virtual impossibility of a similar occurrence in the U.S., with respect to the American war with Vietnam, precisely because, as he stated in the interview from Caitlin’s post, any American reporter who thought (correctly) that the U.S. had “invaded” Vietnam would never be in a position to make such an embarrassing (accurate) report.
Noam Chomsky wrote a piece in what used to be Progressive Magazine (I think), in which he cited a TV news reader in Russia who was removed from his job to attend re-education classes because he called the Russian troops in Afghanistan an “invasion.”
Chomsky contrasted the incident with the virtual impossibility of a similar occurrence in the U.S., with respect to the American war with Vietnam, precisely because, as he stated in the interview from Caitlin’s post, any American reporter who thought (correctly) that the U.S. had “invaded” Vietnam would never be in a position to make such an embarrassing (accurate) report.