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

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

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

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.

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

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

The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.