Debating Secrecy vs. a Free Press
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/22/debating-secrecy-vs-a-free-press/

“The term “spring offensive” may to be out of favor in the media, but more than 50 organizations endorsed a forum this past Friday with some of the media’s best known editorial heavyweights, to discuss the most serious crisis journalistic freedom has faced in decades: a deepening collision over leaks with what has become a national surveillance state.

This media event about the media is about the further erosion, if not the end, of a free press as we have known it, but the press couldn’t bother to cover it. They had other priorities like Kim Kardashian’s first presence on the cover of Vogue.”