| Disclosures made possible by digital media, government surveillance and unorthodox publishers have unsettled understandings of mass media's place in American democracy. The federal government is prosecuting leakers at a brisk clip and on novel theories. It is collecting information from and about journalists, calling one a criminal and threatening another with jail. In its failed effort to persuade Russia to return another leaker, Edward J. Snowden, it felt compelled to say that he would not be tortured or executed. |
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