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"How were previous generations of Americans ever able to trust our military to do the right thing and protect our interests without a cameraman and reporter peering over the shoulder of every uniform? How fortunate we are that there are so many objective journalists willing to quietly and selflessly risk their lives to bring the truth as they see it to the American people."

In giving you a precise, simple answer, the media men and military USED to posess a common goal - to defeat the enemy. Today, media has set its own agenda to "deliver a story", oftentimes in conflict with the main objective of war which is to resoundly defeat an adversary. Every reporter needs to realize these aren't computer simulations, the cost of war is death, and their story is not the object of attention, but if they capture a moment, it's the gravy on their dinnerplate they should be thankful of...

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Exactly. Thank you for taking a rhetorical question and simplifying it for the historically illiterate FReepers among us. The names PoohBah and ModernMan spring immediately to mind.