[dhugiaskmak]

The media didn't break anything. Snowden gave them the story, which they have mostly ignored in favor of hit pieces against him as a traitor and a coward.

[untog]

Perhaps you need to look up the definition of "breaking a story":

"to be the first to broadcast or distribute the story of an event."[1]

Snowden provided the information, the media absolutely broke the story.

[1] http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/break+a+story