Roger Mudd Quotes

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

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  Topics in History, Power

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worth, Story

• 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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  Topics in Past

  Tags in Come

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lives, Public

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Privacy

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalism

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Powerful

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simply, Begin

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Government

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character

• S*xual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Behavior

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Found

• The relationship between press and politician – protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial – becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politician

Roger Mudd (14)

Birth:	9th February, 1928
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Broadcaster, Journalist

About

Roger Mudd is a U.S. television journalist and broadcaster, most recently as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor of CBS Evening News, co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and hosted NBC's Meet the Press, and NBC's American Almanac television newsmagazine.

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