I am just using this diary to point out an article by Jay Rosen.
NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen has been documenting the NSA Leaks over the past month on his blog "Pressthink" and he's coined the term the Snowden Effect which:
Direct and indirect gains in public knowledge from the cascade of events and further reporting that followed Edward Snowden’s leaks of classified information about the surveillance state in the U.S.
He goes on to explain that the Snowden leaks have began a discourse in the press, unless you are MSNBC, about the content of the leaks and other stories that have to do with national security but aren't related to the Snowden leaks. He explains:
Meaning: there’s what Snowden himself revealed by releasing secrets and talking to the press. But beyond this, there is what he set in motion by taking that action. Congress and other governments begin talking in public about things they had previously kept hidden. Companies have to explain some of their dealings with the state. Journalists who were not a party to the transaction with Snowden start digging and adding background. Debates spring to life that had been necessary but missing before the leaks. The result is that we know much more about the surveillance state than we did before. Some of the opacity around it lifts.
To see a large list of news articles that he cites, you
can continue to his article.