Roger Mudd

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. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#candidate #central #character #citizen #decision

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#come #does #exist #journalists #privacy

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

#compromise #course #depends #ethical #itself

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#breaking #breaking up #came #cost #effectiveness

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#decades #had #journalistic #life #lives

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. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#come #country #decade #ethics #given

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

— Roger Mudd

#command #exchange #gives #his #history

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#fools #journalists #lied #like #made

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#believe #gets #journalists #more #more and more

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#behavior #considered #generally #limits #off