No matter what name we give... by Roger Mudd, an American Journalist

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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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Name: Roger Mudd

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Feb 9, 1928

Profession: Journalist

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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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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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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 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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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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