Friday's DN-- Freech Report: They all knew
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Friday's DN-- Freech Report: They all knew
Jan Ransom
An extensive investigation into the Penn State University sex abuse cover-up revealed that everyone knew and did nothing. Penn State leaders and Gov. Corbett could have done more. Unfortunately they were just concerned about themselves.
Philadelphia police officers remember Officer Brian Lorenzo a 23-year veteran who was killed Saturday night by a drunk driver.
You’ll have to wait a little longer to find out the actual value of your property.
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Philosopher Edmund Burke once wrote: "Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
Joe Paterno's memory is now stained by scandal. People are talking of having his statue removed from its place of honor and thrown away in shame. Was he a willing conspirator? We'll never know, and his absence makes it unjust to put him on trial. But, by deifying him (and for that, most of us have a measure of blame), we forced him to try to cover up the one stain that he must have suspected of being able to ruin his reputation. To a man in his latter years, a reputation is more valuable than anything else. Thus, he became a prisoner of his public image. Before throwing that stone at the sinner, we need to consider the bit of guilt we ourselves have in this tragic episode.
Shakespeare said it well: "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."— DonQ
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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com
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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans. E-mail tips to ransomj@phillynews.com
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Sean Collins Walsh is from Bucks County and went to Northwestern University. He joined the Daily News copy desk in 2012 and now covers the Nutter administration. Before that, he interned at papers including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and The Seattle Times. E-mail tips to walshSE@phillynews.com
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