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Scott Garrett? He's the Republican congressman from Wantage. Can you hear the cows mooing? Does he represent any towns in Bergen County? Well, the story leading Page 1 in The Record of Woodland Park today mentions only Demarest. The subhead was confusing, but there is a nice graphic inside.
The off-lead today is about Paul W. Bergrin, an attorney who allegedly murdered a potential witness against his client. And his office is where? Don't see it in the Star-Ledger story, though a second lawyer charged in the case is from Paramus.
Oh, here's some Bergen County news: Victorious high school footballers in their photogenic red uniforms all over A-1. Can't you see Editor Francis Scandale slapping the asses of the other male editors in the news meeting that decided to splash that big photo and caption all over Sunday's front page? "Way to go!"
So, that's it for Page 1. Were you riveted? Hey, look inside the A-section. They're trying to bring back sturgeon for all those readers who miss their caviar (A-10).
Local yokels
Boy, what a great Local news section head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes has given us, including the front -- most of which is devoted to a tour of homes and businesses seen on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey." Does Sykes identify with those bimbas?
Also on L-1 are a near-fatal accident, and Road Warrior Columnist John Cichowski, who found another dinky street to write about. He performs his job of filling space brilliantly, while failing miserably at writing about commuting problems and mass transit.
The last L-1 story, down in the lower, left-hand corner, is about stimulus money providing expanded health care to tens of thousands of low-income patients in North Jersey. Why isn't this story on Page 1?
There is no municipal news in the rest of the section -- nothing from Hackensack, Teaneck, Englewood or many other towns across Bergen, Passaic and Morris counties.
In a few short years, Sykes and her incompetent minions have managed to turn a special Sunday paper into something quite ordinary.
No bargain
Kevin DeMarrais performs an important service as the paper's only consumer reporter, but how relevant are his experiences when he gives advice to readers?
Today, his B-1 Your Money's Worth column urges consumers to negotiate, citing a woman who saved money when ordering checks and DeMarrais' own success in lowering his Cablevision bill. Pretty thin. How many of us could do the same?
Also on the Business front today is a story on "creative re-leasing" of large stores that only highlights how weak local reporting has become. The real question is why towns such as Englewood and Hackensack can't find tenants for empty downtown storefronts.
GOP flunky
Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin gives Governor Christie another journalistic blow job with a glowing portrait on the Opinion front today, but notice how strongly it clashes with a bunch of negative letters to the editor from readers, one of whom calls the Republican bully "an embarrassment" (O-3).
Did Doblin deliberately hide the loyalties of Carl Golden, who wrote the Christie piece, identifying him only as an analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton College?
Shouldn't readers be told Golden previously served two Republican governors -- as press spokesman for Thomas Kean Sr. for eight years and as communications director for Christie Whitman for three years?
Empty table
Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung's Sunday column is called The Corner Table, which suggests it is supposed to be about restaurants from a consumer's point of view. But she avoids writing critically about restaurants at all costs.
Today, on the Better Living front, she tells readers where they can buy capon, duck and other substitutes for the traditional Thanksgiving turkey. Last week, she wrote about the paper's holiday cookie contest.
Will anybody tackle the question of why so many restaurant menus are filled with so little useful information? Or how most restaurants don't tell you how the food they serve was raised or grown? Even portion size would be helpful, so you don't over-eat and over-spend.
I guess Ung is one of those reporters who doesn't like to put news sources on the spot.
Today's front page from the NewseumEditorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin gives Governor Christie another journalistic blow job with a glowing portrait on the Opinion front today, but notice how strongly it clashes with a bunch of negative letters to the editor from readers, one of whom calls the Republican bully "an embarrassment" (O-3).
Did Doblin deliberately hide the loyalties of Carl Golden, who wrote the Christie piece, identifying him only as an analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton College?
Shouldn't readers be told Golden previously served two Republican governors -- as press spokesman for Thomas Kean Sr. for eight years and as communications director for Christie Whitman for three years?
Empty table
Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung's Sunday column is called The Corner Table, which suggests it is supposed to be about restaurants from a consumer's point of view. But she avoids writing critically about restaurants at all costs.
Today, on the Better Living front, she tells readers where they can buy capon, duck and other substitutes for the traditional Thanksgiving turkey. Last week, she wrote about the paper's holiday cookie contest.
Will anybody tackle the question of why so many restaurant menus are filled with so little useful information? Or how most restaurants don't tell you how the food they serve was raised or grown? Even portion size would be helpful, so you don't over-eat and over-spend.
I guess Ung is one of those reporters who doesn't like to put news sources on the spot.
Don't be so critical. I'm sure it was just a minor oversight on the part of the Record assignment desk, which no doubt thought that Scott Garrett represented Garret Mountain, which is in Woodland Park, thus making it at the very least a very local Passaic story
ReplyDeleteI never thought of that. Thanks. You have your finger on the pulse of Deirdre Sykes' clueless assignment desk.
ReplyDeleteThat assignment desk has a pulse?
ReplyDeleteCan you think of a bigger bunch of turkeys?
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