They're Terrorists - Not Activists - article by Daniel Pipes:
"Thus has militants become the press's default term for terrorists.
These self-imposed language limitations sometimes cause journalists to tie themselves into knots. In reporting the murder of one of its own cameraman, the BBC, which normally avoids the word terrorist, found itself using that term. In another instance, the search engine on the BBC website includes the word terrorist but the page linked to has had that word expurgated."

Sad, isn't it? And a poor reflection on people whose main claim to relevancy is that they are truth-tellers or truth-seekers. Makes them pretty damn well useless.