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| Image by conner395 via Flickr The Record describes a sheriff's officer holding a soft-drink can as "working" near the scene of a shooting in Garfield. |
Can't you just see interim Editor Doug Clancy in his ivory Garret Mountain tower, desperately looking for stories to jazz up the front page and sell more copies of The Record?
He certainly found one today: the questionable police shooting of a man armed with "tools" from a garage, and it dominates Page 1. Malik Williams' mother says officers shot her 19-year-old son five times.
Drink up
On A-9, the continuation page, an officer is shown with a soft-drink can in his hand, standing in the door of a large emergency vehicle.
The caption says, "A Bergen County Sheriff's officer working Sunday near the scene where a man who fled police was fatally shot Saturday." A second man in the photo, wearing a Yankees baseball cap, isn't mentioned.
There not much real North Jersey news in the rest of today's paper, especially in the Local section -- pride and joy of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes.
And with their focus on the 2012 presidential election, the Woodland Park daily and other media are doing their best to ignore the partisan gridlock that has paralyzed Congress, frustrated so many Americans and endangered the recovery.
On TV news and in the papers, everything President Barack Obama says is presented as campaigning. Members of the the Washington press corps, including The Record's Herb Jackson, seem to have their heads up their assholes.
More crime news
What's good for the front page is good for the Local front: a homicide in Wood-Ridge leads the section.
In both the account of the Garfield police shooting and the homicide, residents are quoted basically saying nothing like that has ever happened in their neighborhood before. Let's hope so.
There is no news from Hackensack, Englewood, Teaneck or many other towns, but every burp, cough and fart of a proposal for six Pascack Valley towns to share police dispatching is being reported, such as today's story on L-6.
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