We used to call this Depraved Indifference.
Then Trump called their bluff and said, OK, we do have a crisis so give me the money needed to address the border. Ooops. Trump outmaneuvered them and used their own lie to force the money out of them. So, now they suddenly discovered the whole thing was manufactured.
Sorry, media libs, you've been pwned.
It is not by any coincidence that the same exact wording is used by all of the politicians and these media talking heads when they respond to Trump's claim that there is a "humanitarian crisis" at the southern border.
Apparently, it is a "manufactured crisis" only until they can latch onto a photo of a man and his toddler daughter drowned in the Rio Grande trying to get across the US border.
Then it is a tragic example of Trump's policies at the border.