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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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