" Yet this may change how the media refers to "insurgents""
Interesting point. As of 3 days ago:
"ABC's Bob Woodruff Reluctant to Label Hamas a Terrorist Group
Posted by Brad Wilmouth on January 26, 2006
On ABC's World News Tonight on Wednesday January 25, anchor Bob Woodruff showed some reluctance to label Hamas as a terrorist organization outright, but instead qualified the label by calling it a "militant" group "which the U.S. calls a terrorist organization." Woodruff also referred to Hamas once as a "radical group" and once simply as a "group."
http://newsbusters.org/node/3755