[DanielBMarkham]

Yeah, there's a severe danger here that only the stories that are worthy of media play are going to be discussed. Snowden has been proven to generate clicks, so we'll probably continue to see a lot of Snowden stories.

We're in a multi-party cyberwar. We have been for years. It involves both governments and NGOs. Most of the players are pushing as hard as they can, short of real warfare, to gain the advantage over the others.

That's a much tougher story to tell, since it doesn't have clear heroes and villains. Also it involves a lot of technical stuff Joe Layman doesn't want to process. Because of this, media outlets are always going to tell the simpler story. The overwhelming danger here is that nobody learns what is going on, which presumably is the point of having a media outlet in the first place.