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I can't remember a Monday paper with so little real news -- on the front page and in the Local section.
Editors Francis Scandale and Deirdre Sykes of The Record of Woodland Park are lucky they work for the Borgs -- absentee landlords who are oblivious to what is going on in the newsroom and what is going into the newspaper.
For the second day in a row, the major photo on Page 1 is of a triumphant high school athlete.
Below that, a feature story raises the question of whether the company has asked overweight news and layout editors to take a health survey in order to qualify for the health plan.
At the bottom of A-1, a glowing profile of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez sounds like Washington Correspondent Herb Jackson is grooming him for a run to become the state's first Hispanic governor.
Of all the people with money problems, why is state Education Commissioner and Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler's sob story of so much interest to Columnist Mike Kelly (Local front)? Doesn't Kelly have anything else to write about?
Sykes' Local section carries three weak municipal stories from three small communities, including a major story on the ambulance corps' need for funds in Harrington Park, where Sykes lives. That follows Sunday's story on sidewalk repairs in her small town.
Which volunteer ambulance corps doesn't need money?
How come your stories about NJMG dont end up in The Star Ledger or The New York Times? Don't newspapers like to compete against each other? Or does that start a media war when one newspaper reports on another? Thank You.
ReplyDeleteThe Record and Star-Ledger have a cooperative news gathering agreement, hence all the Star-Ledger stories in The Record every day.
ReplyDeleteThe Times likely sees The Record as small potatoes not worthy of its attention.