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Roger Harrison Mudd (born February 9, 1928) is a retired American broadcast journalist who was a prominent correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News. He worked most recently as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News, the co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and the host of the NBC-TV Meet the Press, and American Almanac TV programs. Mudd is the recipient of the Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards.

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

Gives, Giving Up, Place, President, Privacy

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

Doe, Journalist, Journalists, Privacy, Time, Zone

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.

Competition, Compromise, Ethical, Stories

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

Believe, Powerful, Privacy, Smaller

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.

Ethics, Industry, Judgement, Sea, Television

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

Fool, Journalists, Lied, Like, Made, Simply

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.

Central, Character, Giving, Judge, Name, Names

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

Constitution, Politician, Protected, Relationship, Sour

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.

Disbelief, Government, Reporters, Tone, Written

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

Decades, Norm, Officials, Performances, Private Life, Remained

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

Audience, Competition, Found, Having, Networks

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.

Country, Past, Media, Come, Decade

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

Break Up, Came, Cost, Effectiveness, World