Of course the Left will claim that 1) this is a violation of freedom of the press; an absurd claim in another country in which we are engaged in a war, and 2) that this "proves" that the Bush administration is trying to cover up some mistake.
Journalist appointed themselves all-important demi gods after Watergate and have just never seemed tp get over themselves since then. They have this ludicrous notion that they are somehow "above the fray", a position completely undercut by the fact that the overwhelming majority of their ranks are leftists and cannot keep this bias out of their reporting...
I think each and every "reporter" who thinks he is above the fray and semi-godlike should be required to read Ernie Pyle's "Brave Men" to get a sense of how a journalist should behave.
Then they might understand why Pyle won Pulitzers, and was so loved by the soldiers he covered.