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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 condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

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"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

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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 viewers."


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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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