Extract from the professional ethics of the North American society of Editors

Decency – A newspaper is bound to be accused of hypocrisy if, while
professing most liable to incite readers to crime or debauchery and whose
publication is unlikely to serve the common good. If they do not have the
necessary authority to ensure these recommendations are respected, the
journalistrepresented here can only hope that such subservience to base
instincts will meet with widespread disapproval or give away to pressure from
the majority of journalists who condemn it.