{"id":11482,"date":"2021-03-28T01:33:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T01:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2021-03-28T01:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T01:33:34","slug":"when-is-something-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2021\/03\/28\/when-is-something-a-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"When is something a “Crisis”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crisis <\/em>is a word used frequently by activists and media (often activists too!). In fact, the is very much over used as essentially everything is labeled a “crisis”.<\/p>\n

I have no idea if the border situation is a “crisis” – but when the AP tells reporters not to use the “crisis” word we have to wonder if this is propagandizing, especially since the media generally loves to use the emotional laden word “crisis”.<\/p>\n

I’ve written posts about the overuse of “crisis”<\/a> in the past.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press agrees with President Biden\u2019s White House that the situation along the U.S. southern border is not a “crisis,” and it instructed staffers not to use the dreaded c-word when reporting thousands of unaccompanied children have attempted to enter the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Associated Press warns staffers not to call influx at southern border a \u2018crisis\u2019 in internal memo | Fox News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When is something a “crisis” and when is it not? “Crisis” is an intentional word used to evoke emotions – or to call for action. One can choose to use the word “crisis” to suggest something awful (even if not really) or can deliberately choose not to use the world “crisis” to minimize the optics of the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assertion","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}