{"id":538959,"date":"2021-05-24T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T22:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538959"},"modified":"2021-05-24T18:20:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T22:20:36","slug":"associated-press-doubles-down-on-left-wing-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/associated-press-doubles-down-on-left-wing-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press Doubles Down on Left-Wing Rhetoric"},"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\">14<\/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-doubles-down-on-left-wing-rhetoric%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=538959&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 readability=\"28.577540106952\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Wire service demands reporters use obscure term &#8216;AAPI&#8217; favored by activists<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1717050-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"AP\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1717050.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1717050-300x198.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/joseph-simonson\/\" title=\"Posts by Joseph Simonson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Joseph Simonson<\/a> \u2022 May 24, 2021 6:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"109.88886082344\">\n<p>The nation&#8217;s largest wire service is pressuring reporters to adopt the vocabulary of liberal activists in its coverage of racial issues, going so far as to add the obscure term &#8220;AAPI&#8221; to its style guide.<\/p>\n<p>Alien to most Asians, &#8220;AAPI&#8221;\u2014short for &#8220;Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders&#8221;\u2014reflects the Associated Press&#8217;s commitment to adopting the language of left-wing activists. Although no physical style book will be released this year, an email from the AP emphasized several major changes in 2021.&nbsp;They include &#8220;new additions [that] relate to Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders,&#8221; such as the introduction of the term &#8220;Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders&#8221; and the acronym &#8220;AAPI,&#8221; which the AP claims &#8220;is widely used by people within these communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The AP did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The AP&#8217;s email promoted the Stop AAPI Hate movement, a left-wing organization that tracks domestic hate crimes against Asians. The AP claims without evidence that the recent uptick in hate crimes against Asian Americans stems &#8220;from the coronavirus pandemic that originated in China.&#8221; The Stop AAPI Hate movement, founded by academics at San Francisco State University and a group called Chinese for Affirmative Action, encourages the creation of &#8220;Ethnic Studies [departments to help] teach students the sources of this racism and promotes racial empathy and solidarity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although the AP claims &#8220;AAPI&#8221; is popular within Asian communities, the <em>Washington&nbsp;Free Beacon<\/em> could find little evidence it was used in any mainstream publications prior to the last few years. The <em>New York Times<\/em>, for example, used the term just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/08\/17\/us\/asian-income-inequality.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once<\/a> in 2018, when it referred to the research group AAPI Data in a story inspired by the film <em>Crazy Rich Asians<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> could not locate the term &#8220;AAPI&#8221; in any AP story prior to 2013, when the outlet wrote a story titled &#8220;Asian groups, White House seek better race data.&#8221; Another story, from 2016, quotes a Republican National Committee spokesman as using the term &#8220;AAPI.&#8221; The piece&#8217;s authors later write, &#8220;Nearly 4 million Asians voted in the 2012 presidential election.&#8221; The rule changes urge journalists to&nbsp;&#8220;avoid using Asian as shorthand for Asian American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former president Obama signed an executive order early in his first term establishing the &#8220;President&#8217;s Advisory Committee on AAPIs.&#8221; The term never made mainstream popularity until this year, according to a Google Trends review of search popularity. Washington, D.C., which is just over 4 percent Asian, searched for the term more than any state in the country.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/8635FEB2-379F-4360-AFB3-3D2BE77424BD-1024x620-1.jpeg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prior to publication, the&nbsp;<em>Free Beacon<\/em> spoke with numerous Asian Americans, none of whom was familiar with the term until a year ago. None of them has ever used it in conversation before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have never once used or heard the term \u2018AAPI&#8217; and neither has anyone else who grew up Asian in America,&#8221; a popular political commentator and journalist told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;The only time I&#8217;ve used the phrase is to laugh my ass off at the white liberals who invented it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other recommendations highlighted by the AP style book include a warning against using &#8220;words that suggest pity.&#8221; Instead of writing a person is &#8220;battling cancer,&#8221; reporters should opt for &#8220;has cancer.&#8221; On May 9, the AP ran a story about a &#8220;26-year-old Auburn native who died in August 2020 after years of battling cancer.&#8221; The phrase &#8220;battling cancer&#8221; has been used by the outlet at least five times in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the AP, an outlet that once prided itself on objectivity and fairness, have noted a simmering leftward shift in recent years, particularly on identity issues favored by activists.&nbsp;In March, the AP called for not using the words <em>crisis<\/em> and <em>surge<\/em> to describe the record number of migrants at the southern border. Questions also remain over the AP\u2019s relationship with the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas in light of a recent Israeli airstrike on the outlet&#8217;s offices in Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Wire service demands reporters use obscure term &#8216;AAPI&#8217; favored by activists  Getty Images  Joseph Simonson \u2022 May 24, 2021 6:10 pm The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312866,"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\/05\/GettyImages-1717050-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Associated Press Doubles Down on Left-Wing Rhetoric","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1717050-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Associated Press Doubles Down on Left-Wing Rhetoric","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538959","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=538959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}