Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

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

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

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

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

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

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The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

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

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