“Civil War:” MSNBC “Seemed To Carry A Whiff Of Self-Congratulation”

“It’s official. Secretary of State Matt Lauer says Iraq is in a civil war. Along with the rest of NBC News,” Howard Kurtz wrote this morning.

He says “Lauer and NBC deserve some credit, I suppose, for dropping the qualifiers, even though the semantic debate is basically a sideshow to the main act of sectarian violence that has been spiraling out of control for many months now. The way that MSNBC pounded the linguistic issue all day, though, seemed to carry a whiff of self-congratulation.” More…

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