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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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.Roger Mudd
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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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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Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
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The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.
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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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