Who is "The Military"

Yeterday I was watch CNN Larry King Live, follow the link for a transcript of the show. They were discussing ABC News Anchorman Bob Woodruff and His Cameraman Seriously Wounded Yesterday by a Roadside Bomb in Iraq. Someone from Ohio called into the show and asked,

...why are the civilian reporters given more media attention than the
American soldiers who are the everyday heroes that are wounded on a daily basis?

Two of the panel members' answers rubbed me the wrong way,

Christiane Amanpour:

Well, I think it's an incredibly good question. The caller is absolutely right. And, as Bob Schieffer has just said, of course we focus on very well known people and members of our own community. But the reason that the deaths and injuries of the American soldiers don't get as much publicity is because we are by and large banned from seeing it. The United States government has made a decision that we are not allowed to see the coffins, that we're not allowed to see the burials, that we're generally not allowed to go to any of the areas where there are wounded, U.S. military hospitals. Perhaps you can see a little bit more in Landstuhl in Germany. Perhaps when we go to the hospitals in the United States. But it's very, very difficult to get close to that kind of real tragedy that the American servicemen and women are going through as well.

Ok, that may be true but you aren't showing the body of Bob Woodward, you aren't showing the hospital or anything else that you are not allowed to show about American service members who are killed or wounded. It seems to me that you are quite capable of telling a story about the life and heroism of a reporter without showing a coffin, why can't you do the same thing for the service members? The conversation continues with Lara Logan.

Lara Logan:

I just want to say that Christiane is absolutely right, and on top of that there's a real irony in that caller's question. Because it's the military themselves that pressure us not to keep reporting the deaths of soldiers, not to focus on the deaths of soldiers and Iraqis ever single day in this conflict. They tell us you don't tell the good news, you don't show the schools that are opening, you don't do this, you don't do that, why are you always focusing on the death? And you try and say to them, it's because as a reporter I just feel like every time somebody else dies, I have a responsibility to make sure that death wasn't in vain. That somehow, in some way, it's acknowledged.

Who is this "The Military" of whom she speaks? And how come I never seen any of those stories she feels she has a "responsiblitly to make sure that death wasn't in vain"?

There are over a million people in "the military". Was there some poll taken asking their opinion? How many of "them" feel this way? If one person in "the military" says something or does something is that representative of "the military"? I am just curious? My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the reporters and service members who are suffering.