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Associated Press Tells Reporters Not To Use ‘Crisis’ When Describing Situation At Southern Border

Webster's defines the word as "an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending"

Joseph Curl
Associated Press Tells Reporters Not To Use ‘Crisis’ When Describing Situation At Southern Border
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President Joe Biden doesn’t want to call the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border a “crisis,” and one major news organization has announced it won’t use the word, either.

The Associated Press has told it 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.”

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