I think the word you're searching for is filtering.
There's no way any army in the world would agree to journos independently reporting about what's going on a battlefield, for very, very understandable reasons. There's a feckton of things that can go wrong in a war. Always did, always do and alway will. Nobody wants it to come out and look like the bad guy. Vietnam and Desert Storm are two examples that taught us that much in modern warfare, and they're a few among many. Embedded journalists are basically people who renounced any kind of objective and neutral reporting in exchange of exclusivity, and they will inevitabily abide to an already predetermined narrative written by the army they chose to closely follow.
There are glimpses of truth but never the whole truth itself.
From my own perspective, you're a smart and very well educated person, I always read your posts because I know I'm about to learn something. However I'm quite astonished when it comes to your relentnessness in trying to downplay and justify anything that's been undertaken under the Israeli flag. I don't know if it's an attempt to bring balance in a discussion that has, let's be honest, been overtaken by a sometimes unabashed pro-palestinian side, or a genuine belief that the IDF is abiding by the rules and can do no wrong.
I might well be miles off the mark but that's my impression.