• AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      The original point is that junta is exclusively used in the news to refer to ones the government doesn’t like, and other juntas that are allied get called governments, so the term gets negative connotations and can be used to imply bad things while technically the text’s literal meaning is neutral, so impartiality complaints won’t stick.

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      5 days ago

      I’m having a very hard time finding articles where the BBC calls it a junta though.

      One could wonder why the term is used so consistently in Western media only for adversaries of Western interests.