NY Post: The AP's Orwellian Push To Change The News

This is repulsive and insane and it's absolutely appalling that the most powerful political faction in the country not only tolerates this but promotes it:

   President Biden’s Homeland Security secretary says migrant apprehensions are hitting a 20-year high, and record numbers of unaccompanied minors are already in federal custody — but the Associated Press is ordering its reporters to ignore reality and not call it a “crisis.”
   In an internal memo from “the Standards Center,” the AP told staff, “The current event in the news — a sharp increase in the arrival of unaccompanied minors — 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.”
   A “crisis,” it explained, might be a “decisive or crucial time” or “a time of, or a state of affairs involving, great danger or trouble, often one which threatens to result in unpleasant consequences.”
   Biden’s reversal of his predecessor’s policies has led to a surge at the southern border, with 16,500 minors in custody as of Wednesday, including 5,000 in Border Patrol detention-like facilities not meant to house children. Most kids are held longer than the three-day legal limit. Those aren’t “unpleasant consequences”?
   “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,” said the guidance, to which “the Washington bureau, the immigration reporting beat team and the inclusivity champions” contributed. Never mind that just 13 percent of family members were turned back to Mexico last week, even as the Homeland Security secretary declared “the border is closed.”

   This is about as dishonest and partisan as it's possible to get. Among the many unbelievable things about it: that the AP seems to feel that it's better to give patently absurd rationalizations of its decisions rather than none at all. I especially like the "in theory" bit. In theory this could be come a crisis. I mean, it's a logical possibility, right? You can imagine a possible world in which this could turn into a crisis... I realize that it strains credulity...but it doesn't contain an outright logical contradiction... You may not be able to see that right away, but I assure you that if continue to reflect on it you'll see that it really is possible--I mean in theory...

   But for really hardcore Orwellianism, it really is pretty damn hard to beat "inclusivity champions"... That one really does just leave me shaking my head with nothing to add.