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Governor Christie's so-called town meeting in Garfield -- which dominates Page 1 of The Record today -- was nothing more than a glorified campaign stop.
Have you seen those Christie commercials heralding an alleged New Jersey "comeback" -- despite all the foreclosures, unemployment and eroding wages and benefits?
Are we stuck with him?
The GOP bully sounds like he is already running for a second term.
The only part of "comeback" that rings true is all the "come" from Christie screwing the middle class as he continues to pander to his wealthy supporters.
In Garfield on Wednesday, he ignored town residents, including the mother of Malik Williams, 19, who was killed in a Dec. 10 police shooting, and residents concerned about toxic chemicals seeping into their homes.
Today's A-1 photo of Christie is one of the most unflattering I've seen since he took office in January 2010, but The Record and other media are keeping hands off the obesity issue.
Readers don't even know whether the state is doing anything to fight childhood obesity -- as the media bow and scrape before the fat bastard with the big mouth.
"Obesity" has become the new sex, recalling how reporters kept secret the women John F. Kennedy smuggled into the White House.
Screwing commuters
Editor Marty Gottlieb and head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes keep pounding away at the bloated salaries and perks at the Port Authority (A-1).
But the story they haven't told is how the bistate agency favors toll-paying drivers over bus and train commuters, who must stand in the aisles during the morning rush hour.
The PA has resisted for years adding a second bus lane to the Lincoln Tunnel and rolled over and played dead when Christie killed the Hudson River rail tunnels.
The agency's real constituency are the tens of thousands of drivers who are paying through the nose at bridges and tunnels -- supporting all those ridiculously high executive salaries and cost overruns on the new World Trade Center.
Screwing Hackensack
Sykes throws more crumbs at Hackensack readers -- another boring story about the criminal trial of suspended Police Chief Ken Zisa (L-3).
The obituary for Charles A. Cafasso of Fairway Market in Fort Lee fails to report that the Cafasso family's market predates the unrelated, New York-based Fairway Market chain (L-5).
And shoppers in the Fort Lee store don't have to weather the New York "attitude" familiar to anyone who shops at the chain's Paramus outpost.
Another tub of lard
I was looking for a correction of Wednesday's Better Living recipe, which called for 8 pounds of artery clogging lard, 4 pounds of mystery pork butt and a cup of teeth-rotting Coca-Cola (BL-2).
But they weren't typos.
Food Editor Susan Leigh Sherrill has quite a scam going, promoting cookbooks, urging readers to try some of the unhealthiest food on Earth and in the process, enriching herself and her husband, Ted Axelrod, who takes all her recipe photos.
Anyway, what reader would bother spending all that time and money making pork tacos at home when great ones are available at Rosa Mexicano in Hackensack and Las Maravillas de Tulcingo in Englewood.
And if you're looking for a break from all the mystery pork Sherrill is pushing, try a fish taco.
And if you're looking for a break from all the mystery pork Sherrill is pushing, try a fish taco.
Not for nothin', as we used to say, but how does the "local" paper allow itself to get beat on no fewer than 8 stories in less than 36 hours -- by a guy with a laptop & a cellphone?
ReplyDeleteFor instance:
1. Westwood rescue of ref at game
2. Hillsdale councilman calls firefighters drunks
3. Inside story of NArlington cop arrest
4. Girls hospitalized after Cliffside Pk softball accident
5. THIS A.M.: Female IHA teacher charged with having sex with Wood-Ridge HS student (still waiting at 1:45 to see it elsewhere)
There's more ....
Their version of local: Notorious G.O.V. in Garfield; over-the-hill rocker in Newark; Nutley tanning case, etc.
CVP should reconsider its taglines:
Delete"No one rewrites a press release faster than CVP!"
"Another press release scoop!"
"It might be wrong, but Cliffview Pilot published it first!"
"Interviews? Reporting from scene? CVP is too fast for that."
You might want to reconsider your statement: Nos. 1-5 don't in any way fit your characterization. In fact, you wrote No. 5 off a news release SIX HOURS after I researched and published the full story.
DeleteThere's a reason why people give it to me first, then to you 20 minutes to a half-hour later, if they give it to you at all (want me to list those, too?).
There's a reason their first instinct is to call me, and not leave it for the PIO, why they immediately get hold of me after Stephen himself calls to complain.
There's a reason so many people get their news from me and not from you.
I'm proud of me, too. Thank you.
Research? When's the last time you got off your ass and knocked on doors, or described the scene of a major accident based on first-person observation. I think we all know the answer to that. What you do, besides plenty of undeserved self-congratulation, is journalism in its lowest form, if it even qualifies as that. And by the way, how are those year-over-year unique viewer numbers? Or month-over-month? Ha. Yeah, I thought so.
DeleteYou can whine anonymously till the sacred cows come home about what YOU consider MY mission to be.
DeleteSorry to disappoint you, scoop, but I haven't much time for ambulance chasing (talk about media at its lowest). I'm busy getting details from the actual people involved in stories that folks want to read, not waiting for a PIO to call me back or the prosecutor to issue a release (now THAT's lame).
Your attitude here is a reflection of your product: contempt, scorn & little else.... You're applying arbitrary standards to stories that you don't even read.
Me, I'm out there meeting new people, reinforcing sources, talking up the site, solidifying the goodwill, expanding the reach -- boosting the brand. Oh, and getting a shitload of scoops, which even your pretzel logic can't deny.
Later....
We're all very proud of you, GerryD.
ReplyDeleteThank you, by the way. Feel free to write or call. Info's on the site (ABOUT US) and on Facebook.
DeleteGood journalism isn't measured in page views. If Jerry breaks a story, he's right to brag about it even if some other media with more page views gets credit for it.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Aaron. Here's the cool part: Google News is already working on that.
DeletePuhleeze, Jerry. You've crawled a mile up the ass of every police chief in Bergen County and 2 miles up Molinelli's ass. You don't have to wait for press releases because they serve up the stories, knowing you won't write anything negative about them, their departments or their bloated budgets. You don't give a shit about the truth, and anyone who knows you is more than familiar with your Blue Messiah complex. Truth is, you're just a self-deluded shill for a bunch of hacks hiding behind badges.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot Saudino, Higgins, DeFazio, PIP, Fuentes, Fishman ...
DeleteI don't write salary/bennies stories. I leave that to you guys.
I do write about every LEO who crosses the line. The North Arlington story, for instance -- the one you guys didn't get. Only one place you'll find all the details (incl. the fact that his gfriend is a suspect, how much jewelry they got back and more).
While you're writing about every burp and fart at the Zisa trial, I'm covering what's actually going on in Hackensack.
Need I go on?
This is great ... Can I have some more ... puhleeze? Man, are you miserable ....
ReplyDeleteYeah, tell us about how you wrote about Morgan without once getting off your fat ass (and more than 10 feet from a bottle of Crown Royal) to actually do some legwork or all the "scoops" you had to rewrite because you'd rather be "first" than right. Even better, tell us about how you sold out Salazar to save your own ass and cover Mordaga's.
ReplyDeleteAaron, first of all, let's define "breaking a story." I mean, I could write about fender benders in front of my house and call them "scoops," too. Most of what Jerry calls scoops are just hyped police blotter items that won't captivate the average person. Or an arrest he gets 20 minutes before the press release. As if people are sitting at their computers, pushing refresh, so they can read the press release on CVP first. Doesn't happen. (Some) People have lives. Which is where page views come in. On the internet, people talk with their mouses. Good sites get traffic--and that traffic grows--because they offer more of what people want. CVP, on the other hand, well...I'll let the numbers speak for themselves. And it's fair to say, no one's ripping off Jerry's little fender-bender stories. Analysis? Updates? Usually, the only "development" in one of CVP's stories is a verb tense change: CVP "had" it first.
ReplyDeleteIt's really rich to hear Jerry say it now: It's not about the numbers, it's about the journalism. This from a guy who has done his chest-thumping routine on this very site so many times. You know, how CVP is expanding, how the number of people reading his stories is growing all the time. All the sources. The bit about all the success and the money and the fame. To read his bluster, you'd think he had built a media empire. What a joke. Jerry has every right to feel proud about all the people with badges who he says love his work and give him his fender-bender scoops. Unfortunately for him, readers don't seem to be as enthralled.
The fender bender scoops are the exclusive province of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes, who seems to have a filler photo of every minor contretemps on the front of Local or inside.
ReplyDeleteSee L-1 today and a photo bringing readers momentous news about Main Street in Hackensack.
Sykes and her lazy flunkies are chronicling every bit of utility pole, traffic light and fallen-tree news for the archives.
A outright lie about a reporter who also happens to be a great friend shouldn't be allowed here -- unless you want to put your name to it.
ReplyDeleteAs for the longwinded comment that followed: Those who read it know what the Pilot does -- you see the exclusives and scoops regularly. Those who don't write drivel.
Grow a pair, open your own business, do what you believe is the right thing, don't be a hypocrite and THEN come talk to me.
For the final time: My numbers are available for all to see. And all those eyeballs definitely aren't all law enforcement.
Even if they were: They're readers, too. And that, genius, has been the failing of the Beverly Hillbillies truck you call a newspaper for a long, long time.
All those cops, firefighters, teachers -- you cast them as "not readers."
You serve what you consider your audience, I'll serve mine. You wanna make jokes, fine. Knock yourself out.... You want to hurl baseless accusations, that's a different story...