It’s fine to be the grammar police, but it helps to be correct. OED identifies media as “plural and collective singular,” so both usages are in fact considered legitimate by that authority.
Language evolves, and dictionaries reflect usage rather than merely prescribing it.
I can’t think of a presidential offspring serving in combat since WW II; however, our sitting VP’s son spent a year in Iraq as part of the Delaware National Guard’s presence there.
The second one is starting an intervention…