Of course you can compare the two. But if you don’t like that example, what about war-time journalists? I guess if Bill Mauldin had gotten seriously hurt, you’d tell him it was his fault, he shouldn’t have been there, etc.
I mean, the gymnastics that you’re going through on this. What if she had simply been reporting in the Chicago housing projects?
Look if you think it's ok for a blonde attractive female reporter to be in the middle of something like that, then that's fine. You're entitled to that opinion. Something tells me you wouldn't let your wife/daughter do it, though.
Back in WW2 and Vietnam you needed reporters embedded with soldiers. There was no other way to get the story out. Today there are so many ways to get video and commentary I don't think it's necessary to plop a woman like this in the middle of anarchy. This isn't a war where she was walking around with US soldiers. Don't you see the difference???