Here we go again. Am I to expect a stream of generalised half-truths slagging off the media?
We get the media coverage we deserve, and treating journos as the enemy will never build the bridges of understanding necessary for good, positive coverage, and for journalistic understanding of the occasional need for restraint.
With regard to publishing pictures of people's faces, OK, then let the press minders make sure that the media know that they shouldn't do so and why they shouldn't - they're not serving members of the forces so often need to be persuaded, and not just told, to do something. And let's not unnecessarily classify and restrict everything, because if we do so, the occasional need and justification for legitimate censorship may be undermined, since the less well-educated journos will just think that it's the MoD up to its usual tricks.
Above all, let's classify and protect militarily sensitive information, but not information which is merely politically embarrassing to the party in power - or is that too much to hope for?
And there are some good journos out there, let's not forget - even with some of the national news organisations.