{"id":349514,"date":"2021-03-30T10:45:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=349514"},"modified":"2021-03-30T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:45:40","slug":"associated-press-tells-reporters-not-to-use-crisis-when-describing-situation-at-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/associated-press-tells-reporters-not-to-use-crisis-when-describing-situation-at-southern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press Tells Reporters Not To Use \u2018Crisis\u2019 When Describing Situation At Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fassociated-press-tells-reporters-not-to-use-crisis-when-describing-situation-at-southern-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=349514&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4495.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden doesn\u2019t want to call the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border a \u201ccrisis,\u201d and one major news organization has announced it won\u2019t use the word, either.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press has told it reporters and editors to avoid using the word \u201ccrisis,\u201d saying the border is not in crisis.&nbsp;For the record, Webster\u2019s Dictionary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/crisis?src=search-dict-hed\">defines<\/a> \u201ccrisis\u201d as \u201can unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an internal memo last week, titled \u201cFrom the Standards Center: A note about the current increase in border entrances,\u201d AP Vice President and Editor-at-Large for Standards John Daniszewski said the border situation doesn\u2019t meet that standard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/associated-press-denies-that-border-crisis-is-a-crisis\">according<\/a> to The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current events in the news \u2013 a sharp increase in the arrival of unaccompanied minors \u2013 is a problem for border officials, a political challenge for Biden and a dire situation for many migrants who make the journey, but it does not fit the classic dictionary definition of a crisis,\u201d the memo reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore,\u201d it adds, \u201cwe should avoid, or at least, be highly cautious, about referring to the present situation as a crisis on our own, although we may quote others using that language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a later blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ap.org\/behind-the-news\/describing-whats-happening-at-the-us-border\">post<\/a>, Daniszewski elaborated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current event in the news \u2014 a sharp increase in the arrival of unaccompanied minors \u2014 is a problem for border officials, a political challenge for Biden and a dire situation for many migrants who make the journey, but it does not fit the classic dictionary definition of a crisis, which is: \u2018turning point in the course of anything; decisive or crucial time, stage, or event,\u2019 OR \u2018a time of, or a state of affairs involving, great danger or trouble, often one which threatens to result in unpleasant consequences [an economic crisis].&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf using the word \u2018crisis,\u2019 we need to ask of what and to whom. There could be a humanitarian crisis if the numbers grow so large that officials cannot house the migrants safely or in sanitary conditions. Migrants may face humanitarian crises in their home countries. In theory, there could be a security or a border crisis if officials lose control of the border, allowing people to enter unencumbered in large numbers. But, in general, avoid hyperbole in calling anything a crisis or an emergency,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The AP editor also said don\u2019t use the word \u201csurge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause migration is such a hot-button issue, we also should try to avoid imagery conjuring war or natural disaster, which could portray migrants as a negative, harmful influence. Avoid emotive words like onslaught, tidal wave, flood, inundation, surge, invasion, army, march, sneak and stealth,\u201d Daniszewski wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather, let\u2019s be as neutral as possible while backing up our characterizations with numbers and facts. So, for example, Biden is contending with the largest number of migrant encounters at the border since a four-month streak in 2019. It is the among the largest number of unaccompanied children encountered at the border on record,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden doesn\u2019t want to call the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border a \u201ccrisis,\u201d and one major news organization has announced it won\u2019t use the word, either.The Associated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311375,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4495.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Associated Press Tells Reporters Not To Use \u2018Crisis\u2019 When Describing Situation At Southern Border","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4495.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Associated Press Tells Reporters Not To Use \u2018Crisis\u2019 When Describing Situation At Southern Border","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}