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“No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.”

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As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

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And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is…

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Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

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The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan…

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Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

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For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

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The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the…

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In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

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But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

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Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press…

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Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

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The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

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