The Ethics of Journalists

With the vie nam war, a press that was incredibly protective of j f k and his private life suddenly roars back into action after watergate. I always think about the press not reporting on then chief justice ranquists use of back pane medication and how it affected oral arguments. So it's a really tricky lne how you cover institutions and hold them to account. And when that slides into intimate personal detail, that's, of course, deeply damaging.