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not known whether Staff Writer Monsy Alvarado will accompany the
parents of murder victim Aena Hong when they bring her ashes back to
their native South Korea. |
When a big news story appears in the paper almost every day, readers get tired of seeing it and wonder what they are missing to make room for it. Even the enormity of 9/11 and the media's seemingly endless coverage caused reader fatigue.
Today, the sixth story about murder victim Aena Hong in eight days is all over Page 1 of The Record -- one day after a court hearing for suspect Charles J. Ann was reported on the Local front.
All six stories go over the same ground. Today's piece amounts to a profile of the victim, including her life in South Korea and North Jersey, and her relationship with Ann.
Editor Marty Gottlieb is milking this one for all the pathos he can find, running a big A-1 photo of Hong's grief-stricken parents, who traveled here from South Korea to claim their daughter's body after she was run over repeatedly by a car on Feb. 20 in Fort Lee.
Shattered dream
"She was a girl with a big dream who came to the United States, but she's going back to her home country as ashes," her father told reporter Monsy Alvarado.
Just below the Hong story, a second story about Pascack Valley Hospital's reopening appears -- one day after state approval led the paper. The hospital isn't going to be ready for 14 months. Why the rush in running a follow-up?
What's leading the paper today? That moron Mitt Romney. I'd be happy if I never read another story about the GOP presidential hopeful until the convention in August.
Snow job
On the front of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' Local section, Road Warrior John Cichowski has yet another column about roof snow or what he refers to as "dangerous white glop."
Readers have lost count of how many columns on the subject they've been hit with by the lazy Cichowski, who can't seem to get himself out of the office to cover commuting issues.
If Cichowski's repetitious column was dropped, Sykes might find room for some Hackesack news or news about a lot of other towns she doesn't cover too well.
Idiot news
Sykes did deliver breaking news today: a homeless man's 1987 gas guzzler was destroyed by explosions in Hackensack after the emphysema victim lit a cigarette, igniting three oxygen tanks in the car (L-1).
Despite the photo and a long story that continues on L-2, Sykes' incompetent minions couldn't learn the man's identity.
To make room for repetitious stories about Aena Hong and Pascack Valley Hospital on Page 1, the editors had to demote to L-1 coverage of dramatic testimony in the trial of Dharun Ravi, who has been charged in the suicide of Tyler Clementi of Ridgewood.
Monsy might as well travel to Japan. She does nothing hear. She will need 2 seats.
ReplyDeleteMonsy seems more active now that she has been freed from the Hackensack beat, where she spent a couple of years endlessly writing about the legal troubles of Police Chief Ken Zisa.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the real problem is her assignment editor, whoever the moron is.
who is her editor?
ReplyDeleteI don't know. But there are several ineffective assignment editors to choose from, starting with Deirdre Sykes, Dan Sforza, Christina Joseph and Rich Whitby.
ReplyDeleteWhitby is leaving. Check with your house source for more details.
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