[mikeash]

Can you imagine that complaint being used for anything else that journalists report on?

"Reporting the activities of drug cartels ends up favoring the cartels because they only accept journalists who tell their side of the story."

"We were going to do a big expose on medical malpractice in Regional Hospital, but the administration refused our request for a month-long officially sanctioned observer mission within the hospital so we couldn't."

"It's no wonder that news reports always praise the police, since your ride-along privileges get terminated right away if you don't play along."

Yeah, reporting from a war zone is dangerous and difficult and getting help from the military makes it a lot easier. But that's their job.