Why does the Guardian only get worked up about the press’s freedom to leak?

Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, has been busy tweeting comments from Jill Abramson, the new executive editor of the New York Times, basically in support of his newspaper’s Snowden disclosures. For some reason, he does not seem as interested in her comments about press freedom given on Newsnight last night. Perhaps this is became New York Times has given the reaction that the Guardian should have: that any involvement of politicians in the regulation of the press is appalling and should be rejected. As Abramson put i:-

‘I think that the press in Britain has more restrictions on it than we do. The framers of our country, in the US, had a big fear of too much power put in the central government. As a bulwark against any excesses on the part of the government they believed passionately in the need for a free press. That is a stronger tradition than it is here.