Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter . On March 2, two days into the United States and Israel’s air campaign against Iran, CNN published  imagery  showing a still-smoking operations center at Port Shuaiba in Kuwait, where six American service members had just been killed by an Iranian drone—before the Pentagon had provided details of the strike, including the full death toll. A day later, the  New York Times  offered a preliminary  rundown  of damage to US military sites across the Gulf. In the following days, multiple  outlets   showed  that a strike on an elementary school that killed 175 people had likely been carried out by the US—an apparent mistake, which the Pentagon initially disputed.…