When is it ok to report?

Many news stations have recently been talking about the deplorable conditions found at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (the black mold growing rampant, the rat feces) "where soldiers with serious injuries must fend for themselves in a nightmarish bureaucracy with substandard facilities" explains Bob Garfield of OnTheMedia.org. It seems that the so-called mass media has been on a kick about wounded soldiers when, at the beginning of the war, reporting on the subject was herecy. Mark Benjamin, a national correspondent for the online magazine, salon.com explained that in 2003, he had written a story on Fort Stewart in Georgia and the "squalor" that wounded soldiers were experiencing there. Benjamin goes on to explain, "At that time, I received hundreds of really vicious e-mails, you know, where I was called a communist and a traitor and I was a liar and so on and so forth." After his report, Congress had held hearings about the subject and the military even admitted that they had problems but that they were going to fix them. So why all of a sudden? Why is it now ok to criticize those in charge of the military without fear of immense backlash? It seems that public sentiment has shifted from being fervant advocates of this war to second guessing. Now the public is ready to see truths that have been their all along.
Benjamin also goes on to explain that the reason for the lack of care by the military is due to financial troubles. He explains that, "On the one hand, the Army is trying to give these people outpatient therapy...At the same time, the Army is trying to decide how much the military is going to pay those soldiers in benefits for the rest of their lives...They can either pay these guys benefits for the next 50 years, and if they do that, their going to take money away from more bullets and bombs." Hopefully, the masses are finally seeing what this war is doing to our country, to those people who sacrifice their lives for something they believe in, after they were lied to about the exact reasons for war.