You know what makes media types happy? NEWS, and the more dirt involved the better.
If the war hadn't happened do you think they'd have been happy?
Now that the war is going, do you think they're going to avoid that which makes them happy? ("digging up the dirt")
Heck, if I was the conspiracy theory type I might even suggest that the media would be tempted to TRY to get the war going just so they'd have lots of dirt to dig, and "indepth reports" to make.