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| Image via Wikipedia Governor Christie is seriously weighing a horse race pitting GOP presidential hopefuls against each other around the Monmouth Park track. |
Interim Editor Doug Clancy is big on crime news, leading The Record's front page three days in a row with the fatal police shooting of a Garfield suspect or the murder of a Wood-Ridge man, allegedly by an ex-cop.
Gee whiz. If an ex-cop is committing crime, are any of us safe?
Clancy doesn't seem to have much else for Page 1.
Horse manure
He's given Staff Writer John Brennan precious A-1 space to report Governor Christie is threatening to close Monmouth Park and The Meadowlands horse-racing tracks unless they are privatized real soon.
Does anyone care about this so-called crisis besides Brennan, a horse's ass, and a small minority of readers?
A photo at the bottom of A-1 shows two elitist horse's asses -- Christie and Republican hopeful Mitt Romney (A-6 story and A-12 cartoon).
Why is who the GOP bully supports in the 2012 presidential race front-page news?
Sheriff Sykes
Three of the five stories on the front of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' Local section are police or crime news.
The questionable police shooting of a 19-year-old black man "armed ... with tools" gets demoted to L-1 today from A-1 on Monday.
The biggest -- and only -- Hackensack news today is a photo and story on injuries to a 67-year-old man whose house was destroyed by fire (L-3).
On L-7, the first Business page, a story reports a car dealer's realty company has purchased Nisi Estiatorio, an upscale Greek fish house that has been praised by critics.
Less than a third of an acre went for $4 million. That's just what many residents lining already noisy Grand Avenue really need: another car dealer.
Ban this word
The word "tasked" in the third paragraph of sports marketer Jim Bukata's obituary stopped me dead in my tracks (L-6).
The bureaucratic buzzword has been creeping into The Record recently and even appeared in an L-1 headline.
Fie on "tasked." It offends the ear, and should be forever banned.
And to think the latest usage was by local obituary writer Jay Levin, normally a wordsmith and one of the paper's top reporters.
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