Many journalists, particularly tech journalists are compromised and not really journalists but more mouthpieces / advertisers. Snowden tried to give the big pa

Many journalists, particularly tech journalists are compromised and not really journalists but more mouthpieces / advertisers. Snowden tried to give the big papers his story but none but the Guardian would actually print it first. The big papers had to follow suit once it was out though, or it would be obvious they were compromised on this particular issue.