No one has the right to know about any operation/strategy/tactic or planning where our service men could be put at danger with loose lips, an article in a newspaper or a scoop on tv news!
Good security is managed on a basic concept, "The need to Know!", doctrine!
Even people with higher than top secret clearances operate under the "Need to Know" doctrine of managing secrets. Even if your ancestors came over on the May Flower and your ancestors were brave American Warriors in every war and battle, and your personal life is as clean as possible. A Top Secret Clearance only enables you to see and use what you need to know, when you need to know that data!
Most members of today's press are anti US military and probably at least 50% are anti American. Often their personal lives are/have been involved in illegal drugs with are obtained illegally and then used illegally. Most of them could not even qualify to get a simple confidential clearance based on a back ground check!
Any member of our military who leaks data that could harm our military personnel to a member of the press, should be tried and locked up for the rest of his life. If that release of data cost lives or endangered our people, he/she should be shot for treason! If that data is used by a newspaper or tv news group without checking to see if this is a serious leak, all involved should be arrested and confined until this war is over!
If we have a need to know, we will be told. If not we won't! The press has no need to know, and they should only be informed of what our military feels is now safe to be released!