Did Daily News bury its own scoop on police misconduct?

Will Bunch accuses his paper of burying a big story exposing Philadelphia Police regularly breaking people's cameras and arresting them for videotaping or photographing police action.

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Did Daily News bury its own scoop on police misconduct?

POSTED: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 3:42 PM
Filed Under: News | Philadelphia Police

Daily News reporter Jan Ransom published an excellent article exposing Philadelphia Police regularly breaking people's cameras and arresting them for videotaping or photographing police action--and, potentially, police misbehavior. But Daily News columnist Will Bunch contends that the People Paper buried what should be a very big story by publishing it on a low-readership Labor Day weekend Saturday:

I can't fathom for the life of me why the Daily News -- the newspaper that won a Pulitzer just last year for its courage in exposing police misconduct -- all but buried this article by publishing it on possibly the lowest circulation day of the entire year, the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. I'm not casting aspersions towards anyone -- I've worked here long enough to know that usuallly when things happen here...it's usually just one of those things. That said, it was a big mistake not getting this article to a wider audience, which I hope to do my small part in rectifying.

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