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| Former Editor Francis Scandale put on blackface and played in the New York City subway before landing a job as vice president of print production for Digital First Media. |
The Record's front page today isn't much of an improvement over Page 1 on Monday, when a whopper of an error appeared in the first paragraph of the lead story on cold-case murders.
The most dramatic story on A-1 today -- a worker who was rescued from a vat of acid -- is totally oversold by Editor Marty Gottlieb, though readers don't learn that until deep into the continuation page; the diluted acid wouldn't have killed him (A-6).
Recycled news
A rare story on recycling focuses on Fair Lawn and Clifton, but there's no explanation why Hackensack, the most populous Bergen County town, was omitted (A-1).
Although readers have had it up to here with 9/11, the editor of the Editorial Page keeps hammering away at the anticlimactic trial as a follow-up to news stories and columns that no one bothered to read (A-10).
Bridge loan
Readers are wondering why the paper is wasting so much space on 9/11, and devoting so little space to cost overruns at the World Trade Center and the higher tolls and fares we pay to cover them.
Gottlieb must be pulling down so much money as editor, he is laughing off the daily $12 Hudson River toll on the way home from Woodland Park.
Tru-hack
The ACLU may have blocked the TRU-ID program at the Motor Vehicle Commission, but Road Warrior John Cichowski has vowed to write another 20 columns about licensing standards -- anything to avoid reporting on commuting problems (L-1).
On L-3 today, readers get a fourth straight day of coverage on the arrest of a suspect in the March 2011 murder of a Teaneck man, and another story on the trial of suspended Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa.
The other big news in Teaneck is the trapping of a coyote (L-3).
Sleeping it off
Newsroom staffers, meanwhile, have been unable to rouse head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes from a deep slumber.
On the Better Living front, a story on how to re-use beer bottles is a nice tie-in to the Page 1 story on lower recycling rates in North Jersey.
Murdering English
On Monday, the first paragraph of the lead A-1 story on two cold-case murders said:
"But two cases -- each involving an woman who was stabbed before her home was set ablaze -- are still a mystery [italics added]."
Also a mystery is how this glaring Page 1 error got through all the editors the newspaper employs to catch reporters' mistakes.
Francis Scandale
According to his LinkedIn page, former Editor Francis "Frank" Scandale -- who left in disgrace after last October's surprise snowstorm -- has gotten a job as vice president of print production at Digital First Media.
More Linanity
In other employment news, Jeremy Lin's family have refused to release the Knicks player from delivery duties for the family restaurant on East 23rd Street in Manhattan (S-1).
Lin's height makes him ideally suited to delivering Chinese food, allowing him to hand orders through first-floor windows rather than trying to get into the building.
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