Baltimore Sun
Even if network news is a dinosaur, it still has a huge audience, says Marquette University prof
Philip M. Seib. "The lesson of the week [with NBC News' decision to call the Iraq conflict a civil war] is an unmistakable reminder that national broadcast networks can still have a profound effect on political discourse in this country in a way that no single newspaper, with the possible exception of the New York Times, can hope to have."
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"It's a semantic battle right now and it's fascinating to watch" (CNN.com)
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What if you called it "civil war" and nobody noticed? (Sacramento Bee)
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Filkins says "civil war" is an accurate description of the conflict (NYT)
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Rutten: Does this strange and contentious debate really matter? (LAT)
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Janensch: It seems to me the conflict fits the "civil war" definition (CP)
