Yes! The day finally arrived! The media has grown a test tube spine! Last week, NBC and its affiliates announced that Iraq was, in their opinion, in the midst of civil war.
Like the dispute of whether or not to call the mass-slaughter of hundreds of thousands as well as the rape and displacement of millions in Darfur should be called “genocide”, the U.S. government, with the complicity of the media, has made the appropriate word or title the news story. I’m sorry, but it is almost too little too late, especially, since the announcement last Thursday didn’t make the issue center stage, it maintained the title-as-story reports on every other network.
It could be worse, I guess: they could still be parroting the president’s party line.
Let us take a moment to celebrate that the U.S. media is finally starting to catch up with what the entire world knows: Iraq is (and has been) in a civil war. Congrats, NBC! Better late than never! (wink wink, Fox!)
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