I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week on Moorers & Company,

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Julia Angwin about how we've become a Dragnet Nation for Mass Surveillance Rules.

Journalists are the canary in the coal mine, right? We're the first ones to seriously feel the impact of total surveillance, which means we can't protect our sources.

But what happens next? What happens next is we don't have very good stories and we're not good watchdogs for democracy.

And that's a very worrisome situation.

Thanks for joining us.

Just when you thought you were about to sink below the surface of the sea of mass surveillance,

that bottomless ocean in which we now swim, there comes a lifeline.

This book, Dragnet Nation, A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless

Surveillance.

Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Julia Engwin, reviewers have praised

her work as eye-opening, thought-provoking, and disturbing for its insights into how closely

we're tracked by the electronic eyes and ears of not only government, but corporate spies.

It was inevitable, says Julia Engwin, that these twin big brothers would become

inextricably linked. Neither can exist without the other. So it is we're living in a dragnet

nation, a world of indiscriminate tracking where institutions are stockpiling data about us

at an unprecedented pace.

Julia Angwin covered the tech beat for the Wall Street Journal for 13 years,

wrote the book, Stealing My Space,

and is now an investigative journalist for the Independent News Organization, ProPublica.

Welcome.

It's great to be here.

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