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| The lack of Hackensack news has skeletons turning over in their graves at The Church on The Green, across from the courthouse. |
Did interim Editor Doug Clancy's masturbatory fantasies lead to today's Page 1 play for the Kardashian bimbos at a book-signing in Ridgewood?
Which moron at the Wednesday afternoon news meeting promoted the non-event for the front page? Did Publisher Stephen A. Borg make a cameo appearance to push for the consumer-friendly story?
Did Borg, Clancy and the other male editors form a masturbation circle to decide what went out front today?
Bimbos on parade
The Record has given an inordinate amount of space to the so-called Real Housewives of New Jersey and the Kardashian Sisters -- as if frumpy head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and rag-wearing Production Editor Liz Houlton are living vicariously through them.
Staff Writer Sachi Fujimori is really a letdown this time, waiting until her penultimate paragraph on A-8 to tell readers the spoiled Kardashian brats left "half the crowd standing in the rain, and some of them empty-handed."
The Kardashian farce is sandwiched between two A-1 stories dominated by Governor Christie.
Empty rhetoric
Why did Christie wait a full day after The Record's expose on bloated Port Authority executive pay to blast the agency's former executive director, Christopher O. Ward, for "awful leadership" and "secret deals ... to reward his cronies."
And why is the The Record just now reporting more than $2 million in extra bi-state agency salary payouts in the past two fiscal years -- months after such a disclosure could have helped trim the scandalous Hudson River toll and fare hikes?
School daze
The Christie plan to help the state's failing schools also is on A-1, but it's below the fold and plays third fiddle to the Kardashian bimbos and suspended high school football players in Wayne, where Clancy lives.
An A-3 story blames the weather and economy for a shortfall in state revenue collection -- not Christie's veto of a tax surcharge on millionaires or his refusal to raise the low gas tax to fund road and mass transit improvements.
Focus on local
Take a look at the front of Local, if you suspected Sykes was hiding Hackensack news under her tent dresses.
Staff Writer Stephanie Akin's assignment editor had her attending early morning "kettlebell lifting" workouts by city firemen, breathing in all that perspiration and then writing a really long story that runs with two big photos (L-1 and L-2).
A second Hackensack story appears on L-3, reporting a judge has rejected a motion to dismiss criminal charges against suspended Police Chief Ken Zisa.
Routine motions in the Zisa case are no substitute for Hackensack news. Surely, there must be more going on in the city, given that these are the first stories about Hackensack in nearly two weeks.
In contrast, three stories about Englewood appear today on L-1, L-2 and L-3.
On days like this, Staff Writer Melissa Hayes is putting other municipal reporters to shame, though many city residents would like to see her tackle bigger issues, including the city's segregated schools and how downtown is faring during the recession.
Sykes also thought the third story this week promoting the revived Xanadu entertainment and retail project in the Meadowlands was important enough for L-1.
Staff Writer John Brennan had been itching to write Xanadu's obituary, but now that a new developer has taken over and a huge tax break is in the works, Borg apparently ordered the former sports reporter to do all he can to promote the project and help bring in tens of thousands of dollars in new advertising revenue.
Scandale's English
As his LinkedIn page clearly shows, former Editor Francis "Frank" Scandale can't write a sentence in English, even when exaggerating his own accomplishments. (See previous post, The bullshit artist breaks his silence.)
But as a friend at the gym pointed out, he was being paid more than $200,000 a year to be an "editor," not a "writer."
Of course, he couldn't edit for shit, either.
From Wikipedia:
ReplyDeleteBimbo is a popular English language usage describes a woman who is physically attractive but is perceived to have a low intelligence or poor education. The term can also be used to describe a woman who acts in a sexually promiscuous manner. The term itself is not explicitly negative, but is most often used as a derogative insult towards a woman.
Use of this term began in the United States as early as 1919, where it was used as a slang term for an unintelligent or brutish male.[1] Its first inclusion in an official dictionary for its female meaning was in 1929, where the definition was given simply as "a woman".[2]
The term Bimbo is often associated with, but is separate from, the stereotypes of "Dumb Blonde" and "Valley girl".
English usage
This word derives itself from the Italian bimbo,[5] derived from bambino a masculine-gender term that means (male) baby or very young (male) child (bimbo's feminine equivalent is bimba). Use of this term began in the United States as early as 1919, and was a slang word used to describe an unintelligent[6] or brutish[1] man.
It was not until the late 1920s that the term Bimbo began to be associated with females. The 1929 silent film Desert Nights describes a wealthy female crook as a bimbo and in The Broadway Melody, an angry Bessie Love calls a chorus girl a bimbo. The first use of its female meaning in the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1929, from the scholarly journal American Speech where the definition was given simply as "a woman".
An unintelligent man can be referred to as a 'himbo', a backformation of bimbo.[5]