Many of my media colleagues agonize over questions like this, partly because we, too, are not perfect. Ours, after all, is not a profession that has long been associated with sobriety.
Major media tend to observe a hands-off policy toward politicians' children.
You have to feel sorry for the kids. In most cases, the children didn't ask for life in a fishbowl. They didn't get to pick their parents. The Bush girls begged their dad not to run for president, according to family friends. It's easy to see why.