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Live coverage is a threat to our troops. The enemies over there can watch the news just as well as you and I can, and if the reporters have free run of the area who knows what dumb-ass things they will give away.
The press is going to go for what gets them the most ratings, even if the info they give away costs a hundred lives. They don't care and pass the blame on.
We don't want the enemy to see our technology, positions, thoughts, moral, or anything. We want them to be blind.
Ever heard the quote "The people who never read the newpaper are better informed than those who do, b/c ignorance is closer to the truth than the falsehoods spread by newspapers"? That's how all Americans should view the media.
It goes back to the Pentagon Papers. The media cannot be trusted with information, so it is better to give them no information. At least until we know exactly what happened and can give them an accurate account.
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