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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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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
"Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving."
"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
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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."
"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
"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."
"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
"In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy."
"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."
"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."
"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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