AP - journalists pay special attention to the issues near and dear to their leftist hearts:
From revised 2017 AP “STYLEBOOK”:
” https://www.apstylebook.com/help?query=migrant#/questions/163722-Whats-new-in-the-2017-edition
What’s new in the 2017 edition
This edition of the Stylebook contains nearly 200 new and modified entries.
We now allow use of they as a singular pronoun in limited cases. However, we stress that it is usually possible and always preferable to rework a sentence instead.
A new entry covers gender-related issues and terms, including cisgender, gender nonconforming (n.), gender-nonconforming (adj.) and intersex. We say the terms LGBTQ and LGBT are both acceptable in all references. We accept the word homophobia in broad uses, along with xenophobia and Islamophobia.
We added a detailed entry on addiction, noting that addiction to alcohol and other drugs is considered a disease and cautioning against words like abuse or problem. We also advise to avoid words like alcoholic, addict, user and abuser unless they are in quotations or names of organizations.
A new chapter provides extensive guidance on data journalism.
Among the many new or modified entries: discussion of fact checks and fake news, and updated guidance on immigrants, migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers under a new entry titled immigration. A new and detailed entry cautions against misuse of the term cyberattack. The suicide entry has been expanded with discussion of the terms death with dignity, right-to-die and euthanasia. A new entry covers Indigenous Peoples Day.
We say the word cocktail should not be used to refer to a mixture of drugs used for executions; the word incident should be reserved for minor events; and the word reform is not synonymous with change. We changed our spelling to flyer in most cases, including frequent flyer.
The quotations in the news entry now notes that quotes from written material should retain the style used by the writer, even if that differs from AP style. The comma section of the Punctuation chapter now offers further explanation. A new entry shows why jargon and cliches should be avoided (like the plague). One cliche to avoid: baby bump.
We are changing our style to Walmart for the stores, because that is what readers most recognize. New business-related entries include autonomous vehicles and vacation rentals. In tech, it’s livestreaming, one word. VR is acceptable on second reference for virtual reality.
Sports changes include a new entry for esports, and a football update that ends the use of Roman numerals in reference to the Super Bowl.
Among a number of updates in the Food chapter: We now call it kimchi, not kimchee.”
Stylebook writers are now legitimate targets. With extreme prejudice.
An example from the 1984 Newspeak Dictionary:
crimethink - To even consider any thought not in line with the principles of Ingsoc. Doubting any of the principles of Ingsoc. All crimes begin with a thought. So, if you control thought, you can control crime.
see it in full here:
http://moellerlit.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/2/4/10248653/1984_--_newspeak_dictionary.pdf
I believe Mao Zedong did the same thing...as did Communists Lenin and Marx and Hillary Clinton also tried to curb certain words from being used...the AP Stylebook is a form of censorship...beyond absurd.....
Newspeak...
This issue was pointed out years ago:
How Word Preferences in the AP Styleguide Reveal Bias
https://hubpages.com/literature/Built-in-Bias-in-the-AP-Styleguide