Roger Mudd — American Journalist born on February 09, 1928,

Roger Mudd is an American broadcast journalist, most recently working 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 winner of the Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards... (wikipedia)

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.
But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.