For The Associated Press, "Child Mutilation" Is Now "Gender-Affirming Surgery"

[Ubiquitous]

Back when I was covering President George W. Bush, the Associated Press -
long held aloft as an unbiased news source - made an extraordinary decision.

The worldwide wire service decided that no, there aren't two sides to every
story. There is one correct side and, the AP decided, the news agency would
just present that. For instance, climate change is settled science, so anyone
who offers their views -- or, God forbid, real data -- to refute that should
be shunned.

Just last year, CBS News anchor Lester Holt laid out what news coverage is
nowadays.

"The idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does
not reflect the world we find ourselves in," he said as he was awarded the
Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism from Washington
State University.

Holt acknowledged the fact that a departure from the objectivity once
represented in journalism could "reinforce negative sentiment some hold to
journalists." "That we have had to be more direct in our language in recent
times only speaks to the volume and gravity of particular statements and
claims," Holt said.

And the AP is making sure it controls the language it delivers to its mostly
liberal readers.

"Vanderbilt to review gender-affirming surgeries for minors," the AP
headlined a story earlier this month. No, the wire service didn't use the
term "mutilation of children," instead it is "gender affirming."

"Officials at Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced Friday that they
are pausing gender-affirming surgeries for minors in order to review their
practices," the article said. In all, the piece used the term seven times.

Euphemisms are the worst in general but especially awful when they replace a
term for a horrible procedure. Years ago, pro-abortion advocates took issue
with the term "partial-birth abortion." Technically known as "intact dilation
and extraction" -- because the baby is partially delivered before being
murdered -- the AP decided to call that "late-term abortion."

The AP has played language policeman before to aid President Joe Biden. When
Biden didn't want to call the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border a
"crisis," the AP announced in 2021 that it wouldn't use the word, either.

Top AP officials told its reporters and editors to avoid using the word
"crisis," saying the border is not in crisis. For the record, Webster's
Dictionary defines "crisis" as "an unstable or crucial time or state of
affairs in which a decisive change is impending."

In an internal memo in March 2021 titled "From the Standards Center: A note
about the current increase in border entrances," AP Vice President and
Editor-at-Large for Standards John Daniszewski said the border situation
doesn't meet that standard, The Daily Wire reported.

"The current events 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,"
the memo reads.

"Therefore," it adds, "we 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."

And of course the AP banned the term "illegal alien," opting for the
euphemistic "undocumented migrant" (that means there's a foreigner in the
U.S. who didn't emigrate according to the law, which makes them an "illegal
alien").

Biden on Monday codified the language, saying it was wrong for states to ban
"gender-affirming care" and declaring people should enter public restrooms
based on their gender identity.

As the economy implodes, Biden sat down for an interview with a small
podcast, taking a question from 25-year-old transgender actress Dylan
Mulvaney if states should have the right to "ban gender-affirming
healthcare."

"I don't think any state or anybody should have the right to do that--as a
moral question and as a legal question. I just think it's wrong," Biden said.

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Let's go Brandon!

[BTR1701]

In article <tj9e28$25lmt$3...@dont-email.me>,

Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

> The AP has played language policeman before to aid President Joe Biden. When
> Biden didn't want to call the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border a
> "crisis," the AP announced in 2021 that it wouldn't use the word, either.
>
> Top AP officials told its reporters and editors to avoid using the word
> "crisis," saying the border is not in crisis. For the record, Webster's
> Dictionary defines "crisis" as "an unstable or crucial time or state of
> affairs in which a decisive change is impending."
>
> In an internal memo in March 2021 titled "From the Standards Center: A note
> about the current increase in border entrances," AP Vice President and
> Editor-at-Large for Standards John Daniszewski said the border situation
> doesn't meet that standard, The Daily Wire reported.

Heh. Even the message AP sent to tell its members to use euphemisms for
'crisis' uses euphemisms for illegal border violations: 'border
entrances'.

> And of course the AP banned the term "illegal alien," opting for the
> euphemistic "undocumented migrant"

That one's been used long enough now that the open borders activists now
claim it's racist, too, and are demanding that media outlets use terms
like "pre-citizen" to describe the illegals. Something the L.A. Times
has eagerly agreed to do.

They also have decreed that calling people from Mexico "Mexicans" is
racist.

Seriously.

[A Friend]

In article <tj9e28$25lmt$3...@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous
<web...@polaris.net> wrote:

> Just last year, CBS News anchor Lester Holt laid out what news coverage is
> nowadays.

Lester Holt is rather famously the anchor of NBC Nightly News. Is the
rest of this piece just as slipshod? I'm guessing yes.