People are upset with the Marine being investigated, and the obvious outlet is the reporter. People have, understandably, developed a huge distrust of media.
I agree with the embedding of reporters. I think its a good way to see the military at work, doing what they do so well. I think the reporter should have turned a copy of the tape over to military authorities if he had qualms about what happened, as opposed to thinking he had the next "Abu Ghraib" scandal and releasing it to NBC (or whoever he released it to) He seems to have handled it badly.
I think what you are reading is the frustration of many FReepers. Besides, they may not personally know reporters, and the hard work they do.
Yeah, it's pretty hard, getting that much that wrong, all the time. And some of them even have to create their own "documents" when the facts don't match the propaganda story.
I'm not sure I understand your point, but what Mr. Sites perpetrated here was an act of treachery against a fellow American. The Marine in question would have given his life to protect the life of Mr. Sites because that is what he was trained to do.
Your calm objectivity and sympathy for the media is out of place. If you want to get a taste for who Mr. Sites is, go to his self-promoting blog (www.kevinsites.net) In the upper left hand corner of his homepage is a posed picture of the reporter with the dramatic caption: Dispatches from a life in conflict.
Makes me want to wretch. If the guy wasn't such a dangerous leech and opportunist he'd be laughable.