The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, first adopted its code of ethics in 1926 and revised it most recently in 1996.
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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.Roger Mudd
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
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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.
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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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But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.
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