[m1911]

"The military have become a private club, and one that has learned to distrust most of the media"

I think that sentence works both ways...

"The media have become a private club, and one that has learned to distrust most of the military"

[grobdriver]

I think that sentence works both ways... "The media have become a private club, and one that has learned to distrust most of the military"

I disagree.
I think those in the media had anti-military, anti-government attitudes before they became "journalists" - perhaps is why they became journalists, i.e. "to make a difference".
The media has always been antagonistic towards government and the enforcment arm of government, the military.
The military, OTOH, learned to mistrust them after seeing the disparity between what they know happened and what some "journalist" wrote happened and what their paper published.

[Gamecock]

"one that has learned to distrust most of the media"

This is true. The Army Command and General Staff College has classes on how to deal with the media. We are taught to stop distrusting the media and give them access to the troops. Once they have that access they will realize what great folks we have in the military and the press, as a whole, will become our fans.