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Washington Post columnist David S. Broder lamented the transformation of journalists from fact-seekers into "character cops" in the annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics delivered last night at the Institute of Politics...
...There has been a shift in reliance from the printed word, to that shown on the screen," Broder said...
According to Broder, this change, coupled with the busier lives of most Americans, has forced the definition and scope of journalism to become blurred...
...Forty-five years ago, it was clear what a journalist was," Broder said. "The search for facts was taken very seriously...
...question that nervous web journalists are asking now is whether there should have been a gag order in the first place. Broder, not surprisingly, says no. "This wasn't a disagreement over a hiring or firing," he says. "This was a principled journalistic decision... I voted with my feet." But not before Talbot, who could not be reached for comment, took one more shot at keeping Broder muzzled. According to Broder, Talbot made Broder's severance package conditional on a promise that Broder say nothing more on the subject. Broder says he thought about it. "Then," he says, "I told...