RIP - Sharply Critical Federal Audit of Police

How do you know when you have effectively buried your story? When the Alternative Weekly Newspaper mentions it in their "Loose Ends" piece. You know you've been especially effective when they even mention how the report was "released by the Albany Police Department late Friday afternoon (a common tactic to get unfavorable news in the less-read Saturday daily paper)". They come right out and acknowledge that the Dept is trying to bury the story and then.....do as they're told and put it to rest in the Loose Ends column.

So, we all know they released this when they did to bury the story. Two questions:

1) Why does everyone have to play along and bury it and not ask a single question?

2) Doesn't the public deserve better?