I think the press thinks the sign on their vests protects them.
I did hear a commentator from her network mention that
"This war is different." Guess he doesn't remember Ernie Pyle, or any number of brave correspondents who were killed
in WW II., Korea, Vietnam etc.
Personally, I think if a news person wants to enter the war zone embedding should be mandatory at least part of the time.
Don't you understand this? That was then, when we had the right to fight evil dictators wherever we found them, and the American press was always pro-America! Now we have anti-war activists posing as serious news reporters and we aren't allowed to fight evil, even though most of us know that it will eventually kill us if we don't!