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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.

The Relationship Between Press And Politician - Protected By The Constitution And Designed To Be Happily Adversarial - Becomes Sour, Raw And Confrontational.

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.

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.

Most Journalists Now Believe That A Person's Privacy Zone Gets Smaller And Smaller As The Person Becomes More And More Powerful.