Berkeley Police Chief Sends Cop to Reporter's Home for Story Correction
Scary story out of Berkeley over the weekend. Local police chief Michael Meehan sent a cop to Bay Area News Group reporter Doug Oakley’s house at 12:45 a.m to try to convince him to change elements of a story. Oakley initially thought a family member of his had been hurt, but was shocked to discover the officer wanted changes to a story that had just been published online. The San Francisco Chronicle has more details:
Oakley, 45, had written a story about a raucous community meeting Meehan attended Thursday.
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