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Some Level Of Truthfulness Has Always Been Seen As Essential To Human Society, No Matter How Deficient The Observance Of Other Moral Principles.

Trust And Integrity Are Precious Resources, Easily Squandered, Hard To Regain. They Can Thrive Only On A Foundation Of Respect For Veracity.

I Believe That A Guarantee Of Public Access To Government Information Is Indispensable In The Long Run For Any Democratic Society.... If Officials Make Public Only What They Want Citizens To Know, Then Publicity Becomes A Sham And Accountability Meaningless.

The Television Screen Is The Lens Through Which Most Children Learn About Violence. Through The Magnifying Power Of This Lens, Their Everyday Life Becomes Suffused By Images Of Shootings, Family Violence, Gang Warfare, Kidnappings, And Everything Else That Contributes To Violence In Our Society. It Shapes Their Experiences Long Before They Have Had The Opportunity To Consent To Such Shaping Or Developed The Ability To Cope Adequately With This Knowledge.

Confidentiality Refers To The Boundaries Surrounding Shared Secrets And To The Process Of Guarding These Boundaries. While Confidentiality Protects Much That Is Not In Fact Secret, Personal Secrets Lie At Its Core. The Innermost, The Vulnerable, Often The Shameful: These Aspects Of Self-disclosure Help Explain Why One Name For Professional Confidentiality Has Been "the Professional Secret." Such Secrecy Is Sometimes Mistakenly Confused With Privacy; Yet It Can Concern Many Matters In No Way Private, But That Someone Wishes To Keep From The Knowledge Of Third Parties.