Whether some DUers like him or not

[Swede Atlanta]

45. We used to be able to rely on the "5th Estate" (aka a free press)

to investigate and report on our government. They used to do a fairly good job (think of Watergate) and the number of news outlets were fairly limited.

Today the major outlets in terms of television and print media are consolidated under corporate ownership. They don't want to spend any money on actual journalism.

The internet offers so many other options but the news becomes diluted across all the various sources.

Because journalism is no longer playing its role we have to rely on whistleblowers and others to disclose our government's actions.

The only way we can avoid becoming another Soviet Union or North Korea is to expose the illegal or questionable actions of the government.

To that end Greenwald/Snowden have played an important role in exposing the massive spying on the American people. Whether the spying was legal under current law or not it is something our Congresscritters and Presidents have enacted. We need to know what they are doing whether it is legal or not.