I could write shitty articles about the UK all day long and neither me nor my family would ever hear a peep from British Intelligence. Let’s not normalise this.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/21/police-watch...
[2] https://www.thenational.scot/news/23864847.craig-murray-deta...
Craig Murray is not simply (or perhaps really) a journalist; his constant tangles with the intelligence establishment have little to do with his writing and very much more to do with his antagonistic relationship with the British state during his former career:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray
I have a lot of time for how he thinks and what he's achieved but he's a campaigner, not a journalist.
The point is reasonable: journalists don't tend to attract individual attention from the intelligence services. Their editors and publishers do, but that is to be expected due to their specific role in publication and is often appropriate; I am quite sure state security apparatus the world over quietly leans on publishers, including in the USA.