Newsweek
"The answer says a lot about the relationship between the press and the presidency in the early years of the 21st century," writes
Jonathan Alter. "With the midterm election returns, we've forgotten how recently the White House held a hammer over the head of anyone who might dare dissent. Earlier this year, any major news organization deciding to call Iraq a civil war would have almost certainly been attacked as unpatriotic by the White House-RNC-Fox industrial complex."
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WP isn't saying whether reporters are allowed to use "civil war" (AmPros)