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 Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, first adopted its code of ethics in 1926 and revised it most recently in 1996.Roger Mudd
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
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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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The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.
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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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