Reporting from the front?

A thought has come to me after watching the world news of the last few months. I understand the need for news, I even understand the need for news overseas during turmoil and war. What I don't understand is why we can't get that news from a military source who is there during the fighting for the military rather than sending in civilian reporters and crew. The military does have, after all, reporters and camera men serving in every branch of the military. In almost every war that has happened in recent times, reporters and their support crews are captured, detained and tortured, detained and slaughtered or in some cases detained during the conflict and eventually released, not to mention the civilian reporters who give away our own troop positions and movements claiming freedom of the press grants them the right to say anything they want. There's a special place in hell for this last group of reporters and I personally feel any reporter who gives away their own troops movements should be arrested and tried for treason.