Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald address US campaigners via video

[JDPriestly]

29. Yes. What the NSA is doing violates the Constitution, several amendments to the Constitution

in fact. It is illegal, and Congress cannot make it legal unless they amend the Constitution.

As for bloggers, the Constitution guarantees freedom of the press. The internet blogs are today's press. I don't subscribe to a newspaper. Newspapers are a thing of the past. Electronic news and blogs are the press of today. That is obvious from the fact that the TV news media is protected by the freedom of the press although it is not an ink and paper medium.

All of us who blog or write our opinions on-line enjoy the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press that used to only belong to newspapers. Is the New York Times edition on the internet the press? Of course. Is the op-ed page of the New York Times the press? Yes even though it only prints the opinions of people who, for the most part, probably have far less education, knowledge or experience in the world than many of us on DU including me.

DU is a part of the press. We disseminate news and opinion just like newspapers used to do.

A major in journalism or a rich daddy (William Hearst) does not give you a greater right to freedom of the press and expression than the ability to write and type on the internet.

The Times They Are A'Changin'.

I'm so disgusted with the ignorance and lack of education of most of the news pretties on TV that I no longer watch them much. There are a few exceptions, but most of them are just actors and actresses or reality show "stars." They do not understand the news or history well enough to report current events in depth or even accurately.

The press is no longer defined as ink and paper. You are the press as am I.