Is the media hurting the war effort?
This is begging the question. The real question is what exactly this "war" is all about.
I suppose if one supports the notion that we are over there to achieve some lofty goal of bringing democracy (read: a "free" market economy where American companies can be "free" to plunder national resources and labor forces) and that America can do no wrong when its "interests" are at stake, then I suppose that one would view any kind of honest reporting to be treasonous.