They are hugely distrustful of the media
That goes with the territory. Journalists as I have seen them, sell stories. That includes whatever it takes to make the story appealing so for anyone to be distrustful, its a no brainer.
As to operators and the media in this case. Consider that "Supplies", be they Tents or Toilet paper are on a need to know basis. Dyncorp contracting through the state department sort of indicates you dont have a need to know..........
What should be public information, once it has been established, may be the cause of the accident. A lot of the Russian Aircraft operating in Africa have been given a bad rap and in many cases rightfully so.
Little has yet been posted on this one and nobody has yet claimed responsibility for "knocking it out of the sky".
So Journalist or not, its a wait and see what we are allowed to know.
I only hope that its not something related to the aircraft that needs to be fixed so that others do not suffer the same fate.