Please post a link to the specific incident, and we can investigate it compared to the Code of Ethics. But dealing in broad abstractions leads to a lot of miscommunication and misinformation and mistrust. For example, saying "ethical journalist" has an oxymoronic air smears every single person working in the job, which I think is unfair. While there are unethical journalists (and unethical presidential candidates), I think the vast majority of people working in journalism (and in politics) are well-meaning and generally honest and forthright folks. So I suggest we stick to specific examples about specific people and see where that takes us. ...