Journalists, Who Are Skeptical To Begin With,

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

Journalists, Who Are Skeptical To Begin With, Simply Do Not Like To Be Lied To Or Made Fools Of.

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 Networks Found Themselves Having To Compete For An Increasingly Balkanized Audience.