While Kerry and his fellow travelers can call terror groups "freedom fighters', sane folks know that terrorists are murderous thugs, hellbent on domination of the world and the installation by capitulation of a perverse Islamofacist regime wherever they desire.
As for what "reporters" want, I could not care less what they want. What they need to do is report and not manipulate the news of the day.
Just picked up from PR900 via Instapundit:
"It's less than unimportant. It's press corps important. And it's why I find myself listening to the press less and less these days."