These periodic after-action meetings bring the ethicists together with Bukro and other Headline Club leaders to hash over the advice that's been given out. He and the publisher decided that the columns could continue, so long as the paper's three-person editorial staff reviewed them for conflicts of interest. At the after-action meeting, Conmy suggested the columns appear with a disclaimer. Enright didn't think they should run at all. That's my position.
Any column is self-promotional.
Besides, no matter how vigilant the review board, the paper would find itself publishing someone no longer presumed free to say whatever she thought. The call from the political reporter was the most pointed reminder that ethical judgments often resemble boxes opening within boxes. We know that's a dilemma. Publishers just don't give you that kind of time. When I ran through the scenario of the reporter and the two candidates with Ozar, he recalled a historic breakfast meeting of the Corporate Values Outreach Advisory Board in late 1998.