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