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The press and other news media rightly stand for openness in public discourse. But until they give equally firm support to openness in their own practices, their stance will be inconsistent and lend credence to charges of unfairness. It is now a stance that challenges every collective rationale for secrecy save the media's own. Yet the media serve commercial and partisan interests in addition to public ones; and media practices of secrecy, selective disclosure, and probing should not be exempt from scrutiny.
— Sissela Bok, Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation

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Bok, Sissela (1984). Secrets: on the ethics of concealment and revelation. New York: Vintage Books, p. 264. ISBN 0-679-72473-7.