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  • Are the Media Opting for “Civil War?” (Journalism.org)

    30th November 2006

    NBC’s Nov. 27 announcement that it would begin referring to the conflict in Iraq as a “civil war” added more fuel to a debate within the news media about the semantics of the coverage. Is the violence in Iraq an “insurgency” against occupying forces?


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