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To be fair (too fair), it's gotten much more difficult to trust journalists with that kind of information because everyone is now carrying at least one device that is constantly transmitting encrypted information wirelessly. If any of the journalists' phones or watches or AI transcription devices or whatever have been compromised, which the US facilitates by finding and keeping vulnerabilities for their own backdoors, the information could leak. It's also much more difficult to trust journalists after some of them have been replaced with random right-wing influencers friendly to the administration.
And none of that has anything to do with a competent administration letting the journalists know they're in heightened security mode and at least with the traditional media, they have a solid history of recognizing and keeping the information secret and not being on record.
What you're pointing out, while may be valid, about telemetry or compromised applications, which you have no proof of being a threat here, traditional journalist, whatever you might think about their quality and biases, have and continue to have the shown their integrity about keeping information and trust with sensitive material, even going to jail to protect their sources from hostile administrations from both parties. TM and compromised data really have no bearing on what this Administration has done here with not informing journalists and government officials of the Presidents plan to put them in danger.
As for the inclusion of right-wing influencers, well that's again on this Administration for including non-trustworthy "journalists" but even they are entitled to being told their lives are in greater danger due their plan to evade the threats the Administration brought upon themselves. If they cannot abide by established journalistic standards, that's on them and the Administration and should not preclude being a decent human being.