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Roger Mudd Quotes: 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.
         

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



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The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.



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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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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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