What “Journalistic Ethics”? If they had good morals. If they had principals. If they had good character. If they were honest. If they had any honor, they would not have been journalists, a/k/a, reporters in the first place.
You are right. It must not bother a journalist to look straight in the camera and lie. The paycheck is the bottom line. They are paid to edit out anything damaging to the Dems. A twisted version of the news is presented, much of it redacted and soon forgotten.