David Carr: "War on Leaks is Pitting Journalist vs. Journalist"

The New York Times media columnist explores why a number of traditional, mainstream journalists are so outraged at independent journalists like Glenn Greenwald (who exposed NSA spying on Americans) and indy online whistleblowing publishers like Julian Assange. Part of it is envy:

If the revelations about the N.S.A. surveillance were broken by Time, CNN or The New York Times, executives there would already be building new shelves to hold all the Pulitzer Prizes and Peabodies they expected. Same with the 2010 WikiLeaks video of the Apache helicopter attack.