It seems the days of Walter Kronkite-like journalism are over. Never in history has journalism been under so much scrutiny due to lack of morals and ethics. Remember how Woodward and Bernstein gave so much of themselves to uncover Watergate? Now, compare Woodward and Bernstein with today's morally lacking "journalists" like Jayson Blair, who we remember plagiarized his way to career suicide.
Are the days of moral journalism over? I think it would be a shame if we couldn't trust what we read in the news anymore. I love to read the news, I think it is a basic American right to be able to trust what we read in the news. I can only hope that I stay optimistic in the years and decades to come....
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I was just fourteen when I met him. He lived across the street and he was
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