Well, via the internet, we get whole communities of people looking for information that individuals, governments and special interest groups don't want published, and sharing said information in ways far more efficient than the old media. Just look at various bloggers investigating tech security issues and the NSA. Or Wikileaks. Or people sharing evidence of criminal actions by the police, the politicians, people with power, etc.

The real issue is that these people and groups and projects need to be protected in the same way as journalists for the mainstream media used to be.