Creative Loafing
Michael Fechter got off the
Sami Al-Arian beat when he became romantically involved with federal prosecutor
Cheri Krigsman, but Tampa Tribune editor
Janet Weaver knows the paper's
critics will still squawk. "I'm not naive," she says. "People who look for agendas and bias will seize onto this. I feel comfortable that when [Fechter] saw this was moving onto a different direction, he said something."