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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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"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
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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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"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."
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