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Professor Steve Raymer is the co-author of "Potter Box Teaches Loyalty" in the September issue of News Photographer magazine, the official journal of the National Press Photographers Association.

Associate Professor Peter South Wick of Boston University and NPPA Ethics chairman John Long also contributed separate perspectives.

"The revelation that Tony Overman, a veteran photographer of The Olympian in Washington State, supplied police with unpublished images of local anarchist protestors engaged acts of violence, and then lied about it to his editors, brings into sharp relief the conflicting loyalties all journalists face sometime during their careers,” writes Raymer. "Overman’s lying to his editors is inexcusable, but his ethical dilemma over whether to cooperate with law enforcement authorities, the military, or other government agencies is one that is familiar to many of us. We live in a time when few of us have the luxury of a being faithful or loyal to a single person or institution."

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