Everybody likes to slag off the 'news media luvvies', but how would you actually like your war reporting?
These people are professionals doing a job which is to provide what the population wants to see / hear / read. It may appear fatuous to you, but if it sells newspapers or keeps the viewing ratings up that's what counts. If the 'news media luvvies' started reporting the war in a way which satisfied the whinging ppruners they probably wouldn't stay in their jobs for long.
It's easy to snipe, it's much less easy to specify how it should be done differently.
QDM
(And I'm not a news media luvvie, just a country GP who likes a bit of an argument now and again.)