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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 has a code of ethics.

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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 onto the story.

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

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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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Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

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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 Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

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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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The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 9th, 1928

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