Lapse? Why she's practicin' journalistic ethics. They may not be upright journalistic ethics. They may not be exemplary journalistic ethics. And to quote it the way a postmodern would say, "It may not be your journalistic ethics, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have her own set a journalistic ethics. You have your values; she has yours."
"See, there's no stains there on the CBS wall. Why, you may see black upon white spots; we see them only as gray. Others may see them as texas polka dots. It's all a matter of perspective."
There, do I sound like an authentic whitewasher or what?
Ahhh, the Volokh(sp?) thesis about "moral relativism".