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That’s what Charles Apple says of today’s Philadelphia Daily News “WTF” headline. “Congratulations to whoever it was that got away with this today,” he writes. Actually, it’s doubtful anyone had to “get away” with it; new editor Larry Platt seemed to encourage it this week in a memo telling staffers “to write with wit and verve and attitude.”
> Will Bunch’s tweet on Wednesday teased the headline
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