{"id":446411,"date":"2021-04-23T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=446411"},"modified":"2021-04-23T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T20:06:32","slug":"dont-call-border-crisis-a-crisis-politico-orders-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-call-border-crisis-a-crisis-politico-orders-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Call Border Crisis A \u2018Crisis,\u2019 Politico Orders Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fdont-call-border-crisis-a-crisis-politico-orders-staff%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=446411&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\/04\/fb_image-3486.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>According to an internal memo obtained by the Washington Examiner, Politico has become the latest news outlet to instruct its staff not to use the word \u201ccrisis\u201d when reporting on the migrant crisis at the United States\u2019 southern border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Beltway publication\u2019s edict, which an official characterized as underscoring earlier guidance from the Associated Press, comes despite President Joe Biden\u2019s own use of the term,\u201d reported the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/politico-forbids-crisis-when-describing-border-surge-despite-bidens-own-use\"><span>Washington Examiner<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The memo from deputy production director Maya <\/span><span>Parthasarathy reads as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><i><span>Avoid referring to the present situation as a crisis, although we may quote others using that language while providing context. While the sharp increase in the arrival of unaccompanied minors is a problem for border officials, a political challenge for the Biden administration and a dire situation for many migrants who make the journey, it does not fit the dictionary definition of a crisis. If using the word \u2018crisis,\u2019 we need to ask of what and to whom.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The Washington Examiner also noted that a spokesperson for Politico told them that <\/span><span>\u201cThis wasn\u2019t a company-wide memo \u2014 it was an email to relevant employees sharing AP style guidance \u2014 the industry standard,\u201d before referencing a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ap.org\/behind-the-news\/describing-whats-happening-at-the-us-border\"><span>post<\/span><\/a><span> titled, \u201cDescribing what\u2019s happening at the US border\u201d by John Daniszewski, Vice President for Standards at the Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This post begins, \u201c<\/span><span>There has been a rise in unaccompanied minors crossing the southwestern U.S. border in the last two months since the start of the Biden administration. This follows a monthly increase in border crossings each month since April, or the last eight months of the Trump presidency. The current level of crossings in 2021 is roughly equal to the last upturn that occurred in mid-2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Later, Daniszewski states, \u201cwe should avoid, or at the least, be highly cautious, about referring to the present situation as a crisis on our own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This post was written on March 26, 2021. At the time, the available data showed that there were 96,974 migrant apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border in February 2021, which was vaguely similar to the last \u201cupturn\u201d in mid-2019, with a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/03\/15\/migrant-apprehensions-at-u-s-mexico-border-are-surging-again\/\"><span>peak<\/span><\/a><span> of 132,856 in May 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/march-border-crossing-numbers\/2021\/04\/07\/2c252c52-97dd-11eb-8e42-3906c09073f9_story.html\"><span>The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span>, border agents apprehended 172,331 migrants in March 2021, which far exceeds the height of the \u201ccrisis\u201d in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/crisis\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>, the dictionary definition of \u201ccrisis\u201d is, \u201c<\/span><span>an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending,\u201d especially \u201c<\/span><span>one with the distinct possibility of a highly undesirable outcome.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Not only is the use of the word \u201ccrisis\u201d definitionally and statistically justified, Joe Biden himself used the word just days ago while discussing the situation on the southern border, when B<\/span><span>iden claimed that his administration\u2019s refugee cap was linked to the \u201ccrisis that ended up on the border with young people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t do two things at once,\u201d Biden claimed. \u201cAnd now we are going to increase the number.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.7653631284916\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After months of lying and refusing to visit the border, Joe Biden refers to the \u201ccrisis\u201d after golfing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qg4NyIsgZY\">pic.twitter.com\/Qg4NyIsgZY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1383547793487273988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an internal memo obtained by the Washington Examiner, Politico has become the latest news outlet to instruct its staff not to use the word \u201ccrisis\u201d when reporting on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276578,"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\/04\/fb_image-3486.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Don\u2019t Call Border Crisis A \u2018Crisis,\u2019 Politico Orders Staff","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3486.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Don\u2019t Call Border Crisis A \u2018Crisis,\u2019 Politico Orders Staff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446411","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=446411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}