Article: NBC News joins those calling it civil war in Iraq.

By Matea Gold NEW YORK--NBC News said Monday that its reporters and anchors would begin referring to the sectarian strife in Iraq as a "civil war", a move that reflects how the news media are using increasingly stark language to characterize the escalating violence gripping that country. NBC's decision, which came after a particularly bloody series of retaliatory attacks in Baghdad, makes it the first television network to officially adopt the term "civil war", a description the Bush administration has resisted. The Los Angeles Times was the first major news organization to formally embrace that description when it began to refer to the hostilities in Iraq as a civil war ...

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