DailyKenn.com — Politico.com, the popular left-leaning news site, will no longer refer to the border crisis as a 'crisis,' according to newsmax.com.
A internal directive was obtained by the Washington Examiner that instructed Politico staff to "Avoid referring to the present situation as a crisis..."
Merrium-Webster defines crisis as "a situation that has reached a critical phase."
Take away...
• Mislabeling is misleading and can be dangerous. Imagine if a left-leaning news site referred to an impending tornado as a breeze, a swarm of locust as an ecological anomaly, or rioting as 'peaceful protests.'
The edict comes after the White House walked back President Joe Biden’s comments referring to “the crisis that ended up on the border with young people.”
"Avoid referring to the present situation as a crisis, although we may quote others using that language while providing context,” Politico deputy production director Maya Parthasarathy wrote in a memo to staff. “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 'crisis,' we need to ask of what and to whom."
The Associated Press won’t use the word “crisis,” either, telling reporters in late March to only use “accurate and neutral” terms in reporting on the increase in border crossings and to “avoid hyperbole in calling anything a crisis or an emergency.”
The situation “does not fit the classic dictionary definition of a crisis,” an AP memo says.
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