The US press have as good as said they won't be reporting anything that the military doesn't want them to, and will be reporting anything that the military want them to -- and the military has said that they will lie. I don't know what's going on in the UK, but I doubt it'll be much different. Certain newspapers have always faithfully regurgitated military and security service lines, regardless of truth... and frankly, the idea that *anything* special forces are up to being reported accurately at the moment is risible. That story will have been printed because the MoD wanted it to be printed, not because of any correlation with actual events.
For the duration, I'll be keeping an eye on the non-combatant nations' media over the jolly old Web. I appreciate the need for secrecy and misdirection but I don't like being lied to, for even the best of reasons.
R