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.
In my post I clearly stated that I thought Mr. Sikes handled this wrong. I posted that if he saw what he perceived to be a problem, he should have turned a copy of the tape over to the Marine command, as opposed to putting it out into the world media.
Maybe the military should google the names of the reporters they are embedding before the fact.
There are a lot of good reporters, and many outside the MSM are being tarnished as a whole.