Journalism is about presenting both sides of a story so that the reader can make up their own mind. This is the same line of reasoning that leads to fringe opi

Journalism is about presenting both sides of a story so that the reader can make up their own mind. This is the same line of reasoning that leads to fringe opinions being overrepresented in the name of "equal time". Journalism is about presenting facts in order of apparent importance, the channel editor picks the cutoff point, and the audience (vaguely) picks the seeds for the next iteration. Lately there has been relatively less talk about what the security apparatus has done, and more about the people involved in the revealing of it. History won't care where Snowden is today, or whether Greenwald is successfully tarred and feathered. The only thing on the page is going to be that the third use of the Internet (after media delivery and catalog shopping) was spying on the entire world in a way that only a decade ago was inconceivable.