This story sounds like a fringe conspiracy theory, but I'll play the game.
It is every ambitious reporter's / photographer's / videographer's dream to get the exclusive that will catapult their careers into the stratosphere.
There is no bigger source of adrenaline for a reporter than to have bullets and shells wizzing by them during live shots.
Disasters, Wars, and Mass Human Calamity are drivers of media ratings and corporate media profits.
Why would reporters hold onto such a secret? - their own self-interest.
Eventually, with most stories, the media will pivot a story towards covering itself as it covers a story.
Lamestream corporate media is an elitist masturbatory self-admiration society.