I would begin by saying journalists are citizens, too, and journalists are citizens first. It's all very well for journalists to thump their chests and say we are in an adversarial relationship with the government. Lord knows, I'm as suspicious of bureaucracies and governments as the next libertarian-inclined conservative. But that becomes a kind of sterile dogma after a while. It comes back to the question of whether journalists have a basic sympathy with the people they're covering.
Training is difficult.
Training is dangerous in the military, with young men and women doing things at high speeds, in the dark, with dangerous equipment. Just the training is an inherently risky business. A lot of journalists don't understand this. Frankly, it would do journalists a lot of good to go out on submarines. I've done it twice.