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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

When the officer approached the window, he said ‘Papers’ and before he could finish, I shouted, ‘Scissors! I win, ’ and drove off.

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

One can legitimately accentuate certain things, like a caricaturist.

I'm a big fan of George Carlin's.

The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.

We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.

Art is a perfectly complete cause.

Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.