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On Tuesday, the
Washington Post announced it has found a new editor to take the helm: Sally Buzbee, the 55-year-old executive editor of the AP, who will be the
Post’s first woman editor since the paper started publishing in 1877. The news came after a long search in which most of the potential replacements mentioned in the press were men, and after reports of sexism in newsrooms across America generally, and at the
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The federal government reported Wednesday that the birth rate in the United States
declined for the sixth straight year in 2020. People had 3,605,201 babies in the U.S. last year, the lowest number since 1979 and a 4 percent drop from 2019.
Print this article White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 16, 2021.
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki faulted the “nature of” media as having been a “big driver” behind the use of the term “crisis” when referring to the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
During an interview with
The Axe Files with David Axelrod podcast on Thursday, Psaki claimed that the migrant surge “wasn’t really a crisis,” just a “huge challenge.”
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The comments came after Axelrod brought up the border, saying that “there is obviously a big problem down there.”
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A little less than two months out from the primary, there is still no runaway favorite to be the next mayor of New York. Former Democratic presidential contender Andrew Yang has the largest plurality of supporters according to a recent
Washington Examiner reported Friday that Politico is the latest news outlet to order its staff not to use the word crisis when reporting on the massive influx of illegal immigrants at the southern border.
An official at Politico characterized this decision as inspired by an earlier guidance memo by the Associated Press. Simonson quoted from an internal Politico memo that mimics the AP warnings:
Avoid referring to the present situation as a crisis, although we may quote others using that language while providing context. 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, the memo from deputy production director Maya Parthasarathy reads. If using the word crisis, we need to ask of what and to whom.