TBone makes a good point

TBone writes about the media ignorance about the military and how it affects their coverage. His writing sums up the entire problem quite succinctly.

"Arm chair analysts should stop passing judgment on subjects they have no understanding of and be quiet. Its like allowing a convenience store clerk to critique a text on nuclear physics or brain surgery, then making brain surgeons perform operations based on the input of the clerk. Makes no sense."

Even more galling is that a lot of these media "experts" make big money pontificating about things they know little of.