Roger Mudd famous quotes

04-08-2025

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.
-- Roger Mudd

#Character #Names #Giving
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.
-- Roger Mudd

#Sea #Judgement #Television
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 Mudd

#Country #Past #Media
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
-- Roger Mudd

#Powerful #Believe #Privacy
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
-- Roger Mudd

#Fool #Lied #Made
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
-- Roger Mudd

#Relationship #Constitution #Politician
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.
-- Roger Mudd

#Government #Tone #Disbelief
The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.
-- Roger Mudd

#Competition #Found #Audience
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
-- Roger Mudd

#Giving Up #President #Privacy
But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.
-- Roger Mudd

#Doe #Privacy #Journalist
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.
-- Roger Mudd

#Competition #Stories #Compromise
As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.
-- Roger Mudd

#Break Up #Effectiveness #Cost
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
-- Roger Mudd

#Norm #Performances #Private Life

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