The New York Times has rather decisively broken with the Obama administration:

[Yo_Mama]

83. You make it sound like they'd been dating for years

I just think on this issue the country as a whole has quietly broken with the establishment, and that means that to the extent that Obama supports the NSA establishment, the country has broken from him.

It's not that we are running and screaming in the streets, it's just that the country as a whole when it learns about where we've gone tends to conclude that we have strayed far off any valid path.

And reporters just can't go with any gag rule. No sane person can. Reporters have to report, the free press has to exist. There's a reason it's in the First Amendment.

This is not a revolution - it's an evolution. It was always doomed to happen when people found out what was actually being done. That's why the clamp-down on all this just keeps getting more and more extreme.

If you asked the NYT, I am sure the editorial board would explain that they are right where they have always been, and that they feel it is the federal government which started stepping out on them.