I think you're confusing media Internet ignorance with media reality ignorance in general. Matt Lauer's announcement that "the international manhunt for Julian Assange [was] over," for instance.
And the military's doing even worse than the media in terms of Internet understanding, and they developed it. "Return all copies in your possession!" What exactly do they think they mean when they say that? And when they're actually clueful enough to remember that we're talking about digital documents, they add: "And delete any copies you retain," or something along those lines. Do they really advocate destroying evidence (of you, the wrongful possessor's crimes)? Do they mean that you have to erase it such that it could not be retrieved from your hard drive by forensic methods? What if you donate your computer to some school and someone finds these supposedly-still-classified documents in the Recycle Bin™ or something? Since they're so concerned about proper handling of classified material, I believe they would have to accept hard drives which have had this classified material mishandled on them for shredding.
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And the military's doing even worse than the media in terms of Internet understanding, and they developed it. "Return all copies in your possession!" What exactly do they think they mean when they say that? And when they're actually clueful enough to remember that we're talking about digital documents, they add: "And delete any copies you retain," or something along those lines. Do they really advocate destroying evidence (of you, the wrongful possessor's crimes)? Do they mean that you have to erase it such that it could not be retrieved from your hard drive by forensic methods? What if you donate your computer to some school and someone finds these supposedly-still-classified documents in the Recycle Bin™ or something? Since they're so concerned about proper handling of classified material, I believe they would have to accept hard drives which have had this classified material mishandled on them for shredding.