Steve's barking at fear and loathing in the news business

I'm pissed, my country has actually spied on some news organization. They got the phone records of some AP reporters. I'm not quite sure what law my government broke, but I'm sure there's one in there.
The government didn't use a wire tap with out a court order did they, that I know is against the law.
I think I heard that my government looked at the phone at the canine (FOX) news network.
Now I know that morally that maybe they shouldn't look at the telephone records of reporters, even though it might help us with national security.
Now as I kinda see it, those who complain the most as this (perhaps) lack of morals are the same people  who last week complained about our lack of security.
Now as I do recall those at Canine News work for a company that is notorious for hacking into cell phones to get a story. This company is also notorious for hiring people who tell our national secrets. This company even has on payroll a man who sold arms to Iran.
It's a funny thing this story of government gathering of phone records came out when it was discovered Bloomberg business news had reporters who were finding out what financial information major financial players would be looking at through the Bloomberg monitors.
I wounder, is that an illegal offence? It's certainly a scary situation. Just think a reporter not reporting to what the major player is looking at but is reporting to friends and family or even being payed by an acquaintance.
That's scary ****.
One can get really paranoid right about now.