By Bob Stuart
The News Virginian
Published 2/2/2008
Excerpt:
He also wants to see more recruitment of tenants to the city's industrial park to complement the retail base in the West End. "City leaders have to make sure that city government is running as effectively and efficiently as is possible," Graham said. Graham's potential dual role as a magazine editor and councilman raises
concerns, said Bob Steele, the senior ethics faculty member at the
Florida-based Poynter Institute, a school for working journalists.
"There are
some significant tensions given those competing loyalties," Steele
said. "Many would not see it as competing loyalties, but as conflicts
of interest."
Steele said matters of secrecy could create conflicts in both roles for Graham.
"It's a
very difficult equation, to hold the powerful accountable and to be one
of the powerful, and to be the independent and honest broker
journalists are supposed to be," Steele said. Steele said one option is for Graham to recuse himself from covering city government and politics.
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