LAT in 90 Seconds

What Do We Want? Freedom (of the press)! When Do We Want It? Eventually! Following the LAT lead, NBC News has started using “civil war” to describe the, well, civil war going on in Iraq. Use of the phrase will likely anger Bush, who has resisted referring to the civil war as a civil war. The fact that a news organization is using the term, means its editors are starting to use their heads. The fact that use of an accurate phrase makes the news depresses the hell out of us.