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| Image via Wikipedia The single-seat racing car on the quarter signifies the importance of the annual 500-mile race. No football appears on the coin. |
All eyes on Indy
This generic headline appears to be the best The Record can do to signal today's multi-section coverage of the upcoming Super Bowl, but it only reminds readers the annual 500-mile auto race draws far more spectators to Indianapolis.
All eyes on jock itch
Now, that's a lot catchier.
A second Super Bowl-related story below the fold reveals the true nature of the event: Thousands of drunken fans will be driving on Sunday, so the state police plan to be out in force.
I don't recall this much coverage four days before the game in years past. Today, there are stories on Page 1, the Local front, first Business page, Better Living cover and, of course, Sports.
Did the new editor, Martin Gottlieb, have anything to do with that?
Left coast news
The editors struggled to fill the front page, running a sex-abuse case from a Los Angeles elementary school. It's under a non-story from the Florida primary to choose a presidential nominee for the Greedy Old Party (GOP).
The fourth A-1 story shows readers how eager the prosecutor and the Woodland Park daily are to convict the synagogue firebombing suspect before his trial.
Mea culpa
After running two slanted news stories last week, heaping criticism on a proposal to expand NJ Transit's light rail to Tenafly, the editors today publish an OpEd piece on why the new rail service is needed (A-13).
On the front of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' Local section, the big news is a story about the dry cleaner who gets shit and semen stains out of Giants' uniforms.
In the last paragraph of the Road Warrior column, Staff Writer John Cichowski reluctantly acknowledges that vast stretches of unfenced railroad track are as much to blame as headsets or earphones when pedestrians are killed by trains.
His past columns -- and several past news stories -- have consistently blamed the victims.
If you live in Hackensack, don't bother to look for any news about your city.
Quack editor
If you're looking for a Super Bowl challenge in the kitchen, be sure not to miss Food Editor Susan Leigh Sherrill's take on Louisiana Duck Gumbo (F-1).
This dish will help you overindulge along with tens of thousands of others.
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