News Gathering techniques get tweeked.

I understand there will be opportunists who will use this to their advantage. The elephant in the room in my opinion, is how widely spread this practice might be among all the media. I think about wiki-leaks, it pried confidential information, both public and private and disseminated it to the world. Many point out that was a positive expression of the free press. So this news paper pried confidential information as well, but in fact the only way it differs form Wikileaks is in its scope. You think the people compromised, whose very lives were so imperiled don't feel as violated as a cell-phone user in England? This doesn't make either right. It makes both scenarios wrong. However, since when has the media been as white as the driven snow in how it extracts confidential information to publish as it sees fit?